Concise Python 3 function for validating an NMEA string using its included checksum

nmea_checksum.py

import operator
from functools import reduce

def nmea_checksum(sentence: str):
    """
    This function checks the validity of an NMEA string using it's checksum
    """
    sentence = sentence.strip("$\n")
    nmeadata, checksum = sentence.split("*", 1)
    calculated_checksum = reduce(operator.xor, (ord(s) for s in nmeadata), 0)
    if int(checksum, base=16) == calculated_checksum:
        return nmeadata
    else:
        raise ValueError("The NMEA data does not match it's checksum")