test if email

brad byte8bits at gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 16:40:54 EDT 2007


Florian Lindner wrote:
> Hello,
> is there a function in the Python stdlib to test if a string is a valid
> email address?

Nope, most any string with an @ in it could be a valid email addy. Send 
a message to the addy, if it doesn't bounce, then it's valid.



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