Checking if email is valid

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2023-11-05, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2023-11-05, D'Arcy Cain via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>> On 2023-11-05 00:39, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote:
>>> Definitely. Syntactic e-mail address "validation" is one of the most
>>> useless and widely broken things on the Interwebs.  People who do
>>> anything other than require an '@' (and optionally make you enter the
>>> same @-containing string twice) are deluding themselves.
>>
>> And don't get me started on phone number validation.
>
> I can see how the truley dim-witted might forget that other countries
> have phone numbers with differing lengths and formatting/punctuation,
> but there are tons of sites where it takes multiple tries when
> entering even a bog-standard USA 10-0digit phone nubmer because they
> are completely flummuxed by an area code in parens or hyphens in the
> usual places (or lack of hyhpens in the usual places). This stuff
> isn't that hard, people...

Indeed - you just do "pip install phonenumbers" :-)