[Tutor] regex advise + email validate

[Norman Khine]

thanks for the links, i was just looking at the regular-expressions.info site.


On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Christian Witts <cwitts at compuscan.co.za> wrote:
> On 01/10/2010 13:34, Norman Khine wrote:
>>
>> hello, i have this code
>>
>> http://pastie.org/1193091
>>
>> i would like to extend this so that it validates TLD's such as .travel
>> and .museum, i can do this by changing {2,4} to {2,7} but this sort of
>> defeats the purpose of validating the correct email address.
>>
>> are there any python libraries available to use for this?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>
> Well you could look at the implementation of RFC 2822 [1] on
> regular-expressions.info [2] and use the more practical implementation under
> the "The Official Standard: RFC 2822" section.
>
> For python packages you can look at fv_email [3].
>
> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#section-3.4.1
> [2] http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html
> [3] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fv_email/0.9
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
> Christian Witts
>
>
>



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