Ant wrote: > John Machin wrote: > ... > > A little more is unfortunately not enough. The best advice you got was > > to use an existing e-mail address validator. > > We got bitten by this at the last place I worked - we were using a > regex email validator (from Microsoft IIRC), and we kept having > problems with specific email addresses from Ireland. There are stack of > Irish email addresses out there of the form paddy.o'[EMAIL PROTECTED] - > perfectly valid email address, but doesn't satisfy the usual naive > versions of regex validators. > > We use an even worse validator at my current job, but the feeling the > management have (not one I agree with) is that unusual email addresses, > whilst perhaps valid, are uncommon enough not to worry about....
Oh, sorry for the abbreviation. "use" implies "source from believedly reliable s/w source; test; then deploy" :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
