Use offset_linkid instead of offset to scan >1000 entities.
this is a first-cut. It works in all the ways I could make earlier
versions fail. It passes link_id as URL parameters. It also has a new
class LinkCreator which makes the main body of getListContents even easier
to write.
I wasn't sure if link_id's could have non alphanumeric characters; if so, they
need to be URL encoded/decoded.
I also need to go and remove any mention of raw offsets now, because we don't
use them.
I believe I've talked about this approach with a few of you and it sounded
reasonable. Feel free to roll-back/fix/amend/comment-for-me-to-fix. This is
my first big-logic-change to Melange.
Patch by: Dan Bentley
"""
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