This code reads and displays data from Spanish social security magnetic cards.

card.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os, sys, termios, tty

def getch():
  fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
  old = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
  try:
    tty.setraw(fd)
    return sys.stdin.read(33)
  finally:
    termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSADRAIN, old)

os.system('clear')
while 1:
  data=getch()
  data=data.split(')')
  print "\n?:       %s"     %data[0][:-8]
  print "SSN:     %s"       %data[0][-8:]
  print "?:       %s"       %data[1]
  print "Expiry:  W%s, %s"  %(data[2][:-4],data[2][-4:])
  print "B date:  %s/%s/%s"       %(data[3][-4:],data[3][-2:],data[3][:-2])
  print "?:       %s\n" %(data[4])
  print "==========================="