Number validation issue

[Alec Taylor]

Whoops, my mistake:

In [5]: [not len(x) >= 2 and len(x)<=25 for x in [str(y) for y in xrange(30)]]
Out [5]: [True]*10, [False]*20

But still, I'm guessing that's not the result you were looking for…

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Out[1]: '0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
> 24 25 26 27 28 29'
>
> In [2]: [not len(x) >= 2 and len(x)<=25 for x in _]
> Out[2]: [True]*79 # shorthand to prevent spam
>
>
> I trust you can see the error now!
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Morten Engvoldsen <mortenengv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi ,
>> I have wrote the below code to validate a number using modulus 10 and 11:
>>
>> def is_valid_number(checknum, mod):
>>     if mod == 10:
>>         if not len(checknum) >= 2 and len(checknum) <=25:
>>             return False
>>         number = tuple(int(i) for i in reversed(str(checknum)) )
>>         return (sum(int(num) * 2 for num in number[1::2]) % 10) == 0
>>     elif mod == 11:
>>         if not len(checknum)!= 11:
>>             return False
>>         weights = [5, 4, 3, 2, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1]
>>         return (sum(w * int(x) for w, x in zip(weights, checknum)) % 11) ==
>> 0
>>
>> is_valid_number("12345678217", 10)
>>
>> The above code is able to validate 25 length number for modulus 10 , but for
>> modulus 11 i have done the validation only for 11 digit,  Since for modulus
>> 11 the weight should be in
>> .............4,3,2,7,6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1  in this format.
>>
>> Could you please let me know how can i validate the 25 length number for
>> modulus 11 with weight ...............4,3,2,7,6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3,
>> 2, 1  in this format.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Morten
>>
>>
>>
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