[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to have the python equivalent function of this > (that checks email format) > > function CheckEmail($Email = "") { > if (ereg("[[:alnum:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:alnum:]]+\.[[:alnum:]]+", > $Email)) { > return true; > } else { > return false; > } > }
While it is possible to translate the above code into Python (see http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html), you should know that the regex above will not validate all possible email addresses. In general it is a fools errand to try to anyway. -- Benji York -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list