Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@gmail.com> added the comment: Thinking about the regex pattern again. The example given is not really wrong. It does what it claims to match, that is '<u...@example.com>' and 'u...@example.com' and reject <u...@example.com' kind of string. Nothing is said about 'u...@example.com>' kind of string.
Also, this is not an example of validating an email address or finding an email address pattern in text data. A good regex for that purposes would be more complex[1][2]. Having said that, if example of conditional regex has been given - the current one is sufficient (in which case no change is required) or a simpler one can be presented, which may not like matching a email address and thus devoid of any expectations of valid patterns. Also, if we 'really' think that rejecting 'user@example>' is good idea in the example documentation, then having '$' in no-pattern of regex is good enough. No need to think for regex search cases for the explanation given about. 1: http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html 2: http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11283> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
