Checks if a credit card number is valid based off of the techniques from this infographic.
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August 5, 2012 23:59
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Credit Card Validation
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card = raw_input("Enter credit card number: ") | |
num = map(int, card.strip()) | |
total = 0 | |
for i in range(len(num)): | |
if i % 2 == 0: | |
con = num[i]*2 | |
total += con if con < 10 else 1 + (con % 10) | |
else: | |
total += num[i] | |
if total % 10 == 0: | |
print "Valid credit card" | |
else: | |
print "Invalid credit card; watch out!" |
Thanks! Just something I wanted to code while going through old pictures on my computer. I also wanted to save it somewhere, and I figured a Gist would be a good place for it.
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very nice.