Checking if email is valid

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 05:21, Simon Connah via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
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> Could someone push me in the right direction please? I just want to find out if a string is a valid email address.

There is only one way to know that a string is a valid email address,
and that's to send an email to it.

What is your goal though? For example, if you're trying to autolink
email addresses in text, you don't really care whether it's valid,
only that it looks like an address.

ChrisA