Source code for coinbits.encoding

from collections import deque
from hashlib import sha256

BASE58_DIGITS = '123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz'


def b58decode(s):
    result = 0
    for c in s:
        result = result * 58 + BASE58_DIGITS.index(c)
    return result


def b58encode(n):
    result = ''
    while n > 0:
        n, rem = divmod(n, 58)
        result = BASE58_DIGITS[rem] + result
    return result


def b256encode(n):
    result = ''
    while n > 0:
        result = chr(n % 256) + result
        n /= 256
    return result


def b58_check_decode(s):
    # first, get the number of prefix ones
    ones = 0
    ls = deque(s)
    while ls and ls.popleft() == '1':
        ones += 1

    s = b256encode(b58decode(s))
    result = '\0' * ones + s[:-4]
    checksum = sha256(sha256(result).digest()).digest()[0:4]
    assert(checksum == s[-4:])
    return result[1:]