From 96e8e7e2937ea62757627350c3ea83f5bbae9772 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:05:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Bugfix: Serialized numbers are signed, so need an extra \x00 in the case of 0x80...-0xff...

Function body taken from Eloipool's bitcoin/script.py encodeUNum function (does not work for zero or negative numbers)
---
 lib/util.py |   13 +++++++++----
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/util.py b/lib/util.py
index 3e88fd8..45da424 100644
--- a/lib/util.py
+++ b/lib/util.py
@@ -188,11 +188,16 @@ def deser_uint256_be(f):
         r += t << (i * 32)
     return r
 
-def ser_number(num):
+def ser_number(n):
     # For encoding nHeight into coinbase
-    d = struct.pack("<I", num).rstrip("\x00")
-    return chr(len(d)) + d
-    
+    s = bytearray(b'\1')
+    while n > 127:
+        s[0] += 1
+        s.append(n % 256)
+        n //= 256
+    s.append(n)
+    return bytes(s)
+
 def script_to_address(addr):
     d = address_to_pubkeyhash(addr)
     if not d:
-- 
1.7.1