Added GAE tasks that are related to updating GHOP Tasks.
Several TODO's have been added. Also note that some functionality that is being used here is under construction and is being integrated asap. That's the price to pay for cleaner integration commits I guess :).
Reviewed by: Lennard de Rijk
"""
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