Non-math-geek needs help with CRCs (binascii.crc32)

[Peter Hansen]

Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> nobody <get at bent.com> wrote:
> 
>> 1) Does anyone know if the CRC32 algorithm in binascii has a name?  There
>> seem to be a TON of different CRC32 methods; different polynomials,

> If you have a sample of data, its usually pretty easy to work out
> which CRC it does actually use by trial and error.  You can use the
> code Ross provides to help.

Probably _much_ easier just to check the source.  (It's not
in Python, though, it's in the C source this time...)