app/django/utils/checksums.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:36:49 +0200
changeset 2898 ac5f77cd6046
parent 54 03e267d67478
permissions -rw-r--r--
Fix 500 when saving /site/edit without email When saving /site/edit with no no_reply_email set, a 500 error page would be returned due to an empty value being passed as value to the datastore (which is not allowed for email fields).

"""
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