Check out this python implementation, it uses a table with the _calcCRC8 function
TBL_CRC8 = [
0x00, 0x5e, 0xbc, 0xe2, 0x61, 0x3f, 0xdd, 0x83, 0xc2, 0x9c, 0x7e, 0x20, 0xa3, 0xfd, 0x1f, 0x41,
0x9d, 0xc3, 0x21, 0x7f, 0xfc, 0xa2, 0x40, 0x1e, 0x5f, 0x01, 0xe3, 0xbd, 0x3e, 0x60...