From 250831a86aadb81f2794a16d25b9b4ade8781738 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Job Evers-Meltzer <jobevers@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:01:01 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] remove unused distance function from routingtable

---
 lbrynet/dht/routingtable.py | 10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lbrynet/dht/routingtable.py b/lbrynet/dht/routingtable.py
index 7d7334e7c..b9dff61f2 100644
--- a/lbrynet/dht/routingtable.py
+++ b/lbrynet/dht/routingtable.py
@@ -31,16 +31,6 @@ class RoutingTable(object):
         @type contact: kademlia.contact.Contact
         """
 
-    def distance(self, keyOne, keyTwo):
-        """ Calculate the XOR result between two string variables
-
-        @return: XOR result of two long variables
-        @rtype: long
-        """
-        valKeyOne = long(keyOne.encode('hex'), 16)
-        valKeyTwo = long(keyTwo.encode('hex'), 16)
-        return valKeyOne ^ valKeyTwo
-
     def findCloseNodes(self, key, count, _rpcNodeID=None):
         """ Finds a number of known nodes closest to the node/value with the
         specified key.