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email validation in python
hey, i have a little function in python to validate email. however aa@aa......com get pass. and aa@aa,com get pass too. how do we fix it.
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RDB.
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RDB.
def validateEmail(email_str):
if (len(email_str)) > 6:
if re.match("^[a-zA-Z0-9._%-]+@[a-zA-Z-9._%-]+.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$",email_str) != None:
return 1
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See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/201323/what-is-the-best-regular-expression-for-validating-email-addresses
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how does everything think of this?
http://www.secureprogramming.com/?action=view&feature=recipes&recipeid=1
http://www.secureprogramming.com/?action=view&feature=recipes&recipeid=1
The example is C code that evaluates a character at a time and changes the context when a character of interest i.e. @ which is the separator of user and domain/hostname.
You could repeat the same process in python, but the regular expression achieves the same result.
You could repeat the same process in python, but the regular expression achieves the same result.