def write_checksum()

in tools/build-release.py [0:0]

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

def write_checksum(tarball_file, tarball_name):
    print("generating sha512 checksum file for tar")
    h = hashlib.sha512()
    # read the file and generate the sha
    with open(tarball_file, 'rb') as file:
        while True:
            data = file.read(65536)
            if not data:
                break
            h.update(data)
    sha = h.hexdigest()
    # write out the checksum
    sha_file = open(tarball_file + ".sha512", "w")
    sha_file.write(sha)
    sha_file.write("  " + tarball_name)
    sha_file.write("\n")
    sha_file.close()
    print("sha512 checksum: %s" % sha)