Bitcoin address validation
2012-12-14 R.R. Nederhoed https://github.com/nederhoed/python-bitcoinadress Please give feedback.
Original author probably: http://paddy3118.blogspot.nl/2012/11/some-identities-for-python-inttobytes.html
Copied from: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Bitcoin/address_validation#Python
I packaged it to be available to everyone via The Cheese Shop (pypi): http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-bitcoinaddress
If you use this module, support me with bitcoins! Any amount is appreciated.
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- Invalidate addresses with non-base58 characters Leading or trailing spaces will invalidate your address. Strip them before validating the address.
- Renamed the
check_bc
function tovalidate
for ease of use. - Added check if the base58-re-encoded address matches the original address
Relevant for short addresses with a valid check, but invalid format.
For example:
14oLvT2
The valid version of that address is:1111111111111111111114oLvT2
- Added alternatives for
long.to_bytes
andlong.from_bytes
for Python versions prior to 3.2 - Added unit tests