galileo228 <mattbar...@gmail.com> writes: > I'm trying to write python code that will open a textfile and find the > email addresses inside it. I then want the code to take just the > characters to the left of the "@" symbol, and place them in a list.
Email addresses can have more than one �...@’ character. In fact, the quoting rules allow the local-part to contain *any ASCII character* and remain valid. > Any suggestions would be much appeciated! For a brief but thorough treatment of parsing email addresses, see RFC 3696, “Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of Names” <URL:http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3696.txt>, specifically section 3. -- \ “What I have to do is see, at any rate, that I do not lend | `\ myself to the wrong which I condemn.” —Henry Thoreau, _Civil | _o__) Disobedience_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
