On Oct 12, 2:55 pm, Florian Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > is there a function in the Python stdlib to test if a string is a valid > email address? > > Thanks, > > florian
What do you mean? If you're just testing the construction of the email address string, then it's pretty easy. If you want to know if the email address is live and works, the only way to reliably find that out is to send a test email there to see if it goes through or bounces. Here's an interesting article on the topic, which is completely non- Python related: http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2002/12/how_to_validate_an_email_addre.html Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
