| Feature | Description | |--------|-------------| | | Enforces valid character sets and max lengths per track. | | Sentinel & LRC | Simulates magnetic stripe encoding with start/end sentinels and XOR checksum. | | Read/Write abstraction | Easy to replace MagCard class with real hardware driver (serial/HID). | | Error handling | Prevents invalid data from being written. |
An open-source tool highly rated for its data analysis and decoding capabilities. magcard write read utility program
def encode_track(data, start_sentinel='%', end_sentinel='?'): """Adds start/end sentinels and LRC (simple XOR checksum)""" lrc = 0 for ch in data: lrc ^= ord(ch) checksum_char = chr(lrc % 128) # simple printable approximation return f"start_sentineldataend_sentinelchecksum_char" | Feature | Description | |--------|-------------| | |