Take advantage of the Model inheritance provided by polymodel.PolyModel to
have create a class hierarchy rooted at Person.
Also, add some missing Role classes, such as Role, (Organization) Mentor,
(Club) Member, (School) Student. Make (Organization) Administrator be a
Reviewer like Mentor is.
Patch by: Todd Larsen
Review by: Pawel Solyga, Sverre Rabbelier, Augie Fackler
Review URL: http://codereviews.googleopensourceprograms.com/607
"""
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