Christophe wrote: > Steven D'Aprano a écrit : >> By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago, Fredrik >> Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for "validating" >> email addresses: treat it like a password and ask the user to type it >> twice. That will protect against simple typos and input errors. > > I hate that thing. When I see that, I type my email once and copy/paste > into the second edit box. This is useless AND annoying at the same time.
It may be for you, but there certainly are users that misspel their e-mail address more frequently, just like passwords. And therefore it's a nice touch to spare both the original submitter and the owner of the misspelled address more work. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
