From 8000d7d73346bba9b299bd95b7fba30c080e52be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Warren <me@jonwarren.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 16:23:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Show error if encodeAddress function is given a RIPE hash
 that is not 20 bytes long

---
 addresses.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/addresses.py b/addresses.py
index 65c2bf66..7b2650df 100644
--- a/addresses.py
+++ b/addresses.py
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ def calculateInventoryHash(data):
 
 def encodeAddress(version,stream,ripe):
     if version >= 2:
+        if len(ripe) != 20:
+            sys.stderr.write('Programming error in encodeAddress: The length of a given ripe hash was not 20.')
         if ripe[:2] == '\x00\x00':
             ripe = ripe[2:]
         elif ripe[:1] == '\x00':