app/django/utils/checksums.py
author Todd Larsen <tlarsen@google.com>
Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:14:11 +0000
changeset 281 7caa8951cbc9
parent 54 03e267d67478
permissions -rw-r--r--
Url and Page classes used to encapsulate the "site map" information (URL regular expressions, Django views, menu item names, etc.) and the relation between pages in the site map. There are still lots of TODOs in this first pass. Patch by: Todd Larsen 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