app/django/utils/checksums.py
author Madhusudan.C.S <madhusudancs@gmail.com>
Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:38:57 +0530
changeset 2788 78d02dcd8eb0
parent 54 03e267d67478
permissions -rw-r--r--
Changed all status to start with Uppercase letters, made 3 properties required. Changed all the status to start with Uppercase letters because they are publicly visible. Also changed required=True to False for created_by, modified_by property to allow site admin to create and modify tasks. Also changed required=True to False for history to allow history not to be written until the task is published.

"""
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