def verify_sin(sin): ''' This function will take in the user's sin number as paramter and check if the sin number is valid. If it is valid it will return true, otherwise it will return false''' def add_input(odds): return sum(int (v) for v in odds) #code is doing well so far... sin = sin.replace ("-","") evens = add_input(sin[0:-1:2]) odds_1 = [v for v in sin [1::2] if v < 5] odds_2 = [v for v in sin [1::2] if v >= 5] total = add_input(odds_1)*2 + sum(add_input(str(int(y)*2)) for y in odds_2)\ + evens checksum_round = int(round (total,-1) + 10) if (checksum_round - total == sin[-1]): return True else: print checksum_round print total print (checksum_round - total) print sin[-1] return False sin_num = str(raw_input("Please Enter your sin number: ")) print verify_sin(sin_num) #use 046-454-286 as sin number (note: it should return true)