app/django/utils/checksums.py
author Lennard de Rijk <ljvderijk@gmail.com>
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:22:35 +0200
changeset 2473 5cf0625dfa73
parent 54 03e267d67478
permissions -rw-r--r--
Changed the Survey public view to give a preview of the Survey. Also changed the access rights for deleting a Survey because of the possible invalid references problem. Added two TODO's to the _public method. The first one involves enabling the SurveyForm to generate a form without passing along the Logic since it is only used to retrieve the Survey entity which we already have available. The second one involves a brief discussion about the getFields method's functionality and name.

"""
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