def join_hash_pairwise()

in pyqldbsamples/verifier.py [0:0]

• 10 lines of code
• 4 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def join_hash_pairwise(hash1, hash2):
    """
    Take two hash values, sort them, concatenate them, and generate a new hash value from the concatenated values.

    :type hash1: bytes
    :param hash1: Hash value to concatenate.

    :type hash2: bytes
    :param hash2: Hash value to concatenate.

    :rtype: bytes
    :return: The new hash value generated from concatenated hash values.
    """
    if len(hash1) == 0:
        return hash2
    if len(hash2) == 0:
        return hash1

    concatenated = hash1 + hash2 if compare_hash_values(hash1, hash2) < 0 else hash2 + hash1
    new_hash_lib = sha256()
    new_hash_lib.update(concatenated)
    new_digest = new_hash_lib.digest()
    return new_digest