Disable R0801 messages in pylintrc. R0801 messages indicates that a set of similar lines has been detected among multiple file. This usually means that the code should be refactored to avoid this duplication but in our case it's useless since it shows a lot of imports code or authors.
Patch by: Pawel Solyga
Review by: to-be-reviewed
"""
Common checksum routines (used in multiple localflavor/ cases, for example).
"""
__all__ = ['luhn',]
LUHN_ODD_LOOKUP = (0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9) # sum_of_digits(index * 2)
def luhn(candidate):
"""
Checks a candidate number for validity according to the Luhn
algorithm (used in validation of, for example, credit cards).
Both numeric and string candidates are accepted.
"""
if not isinstance(candidate, basestring):
candidate = str(candidate)
try:
evens = sum([int(c) for c in candidate[-1::-2]])
odds = sum([LUHN_ODD_LOOKUP[int(c)] for c in candidate[-2::-2]])
return ((evens + odds) % 10 == 0)
except ValueError: # Raised if an int conversion fails
return False