def checksum (data, start = 0, skip_word = None):
  """
  Calculate standard internet checksum over data starting at start'th byte

  skip_word: If specified, it's the word offset of a word in data to "skip"
             (as if it were zero).  The purpose is when data is received
             data which contains a computed checksum that you are trying to
             verify -- you want to skip that word since it was zero when
             the checksum was initially calculated.
  """
  if len(data) % 2 != 0:
    arr = array.array('H', data[:-1])
  else:
    arr = array.array('H', data)

  if skip_word is not None:
    for i in range(0, len(arr)):
      if i == skip_word:
        continue
      start +=  arr[i]
  else:
    for i in range(0, len(arr)):
      start +=  arr[i]

  if len(data) % 2 != 0:
    start += struct.unpack('H', data[-1:]+b'\x00')[0] # Specify order?

  start  = (start >> 16) + (start & 0xffff)
  start += (start >> 16)
  #while start >> 16:
  #  start = (start >> 16) + (start & 0xffff)

  return ntohs(~start & 0xffff)