Hi- I was writing a request handler that sent an email address and was very surprised when my unit tests failed due to is_email_valid returning unexpected false positives. Upon further investigation of the sdk source[1], turns out that invalid_email_reason is doing a very very basic string validation and not actually checking any valid email address guidelines.
I created a list of very basic email address problems that I had expected to get caught[2], and it looks like the live version of gae is doing the same thing. I have seen many email validation regexes was really hoping that this function did what I had expected. Should I file a bug w/a patch? Or are there other workarounds that anyone else has used? Just sending and catching an Error (not InvalidEmailError for the listed reasons though)? links: [1] invalid_email_reason source in google code http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/source/browse/trunk/python/google/appengine/api/mail.py#115 [2] test handler and response source http://gist.github.com/359138 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
