Turn any <20 bytes into a bitcoin address

arbitraryBytesAddress.py

#!/usr/bin/python

from hashlib import sha256
import sys
from pycoin.encoding import b2a_base58

def hashme(m):
    return sha256(m).digest()

if len(sys.argv) == 1:
    inputBytes = raw_input("Type your message > ")
else:
    inputBytes = sys.argv[1]

print repr(inputBytes)

if len(inputBytes) > 20:
    print 'error: too many bytes'
    sys.exit()
while len(inputBytes) != 20:
    inputBytes += '2e'.decode('hex')
    
inputBytes = '00'.decode('hex') + inputBytes
checksum = hashme(hashme(inputBytes))[:4]
bytesAddr = inputBytes + checksum
address = b2a_base58(bytesAddr)
print address
#print bytesAddr.encode('hex')
#print bytesAddr