[Zope] Valid email address...

[Peter Bengtsson]

Bruce Eckels gave me this. It has been working very fine for me.
Peter

def ShouldBeNone(result): return result is not None
def ShouldNotBeNone(result): return result is None

tests = (
  (re.compile("^[0-9a-zA-Z\.\-\_]+\@[0-9a-zA-Z\.\-]+$"), ShouldNotBeNone, 
"Fail$  (re.compile("^[^0-9a-zA-Z]|[^0-9a-zA-Z]$"), ShouldBeNone, "Failed b"),
  (re.compile("([0-9a-zA-Z]{1})\@."), ShouldNotBeNone, "Failed c"),
  (re.compile(".\@([0-9a-zA-Z]{1})"), ShouldNotBeNone, "Failed d"),
  (re.compile(".\.\-.|.\-\..|.\.\..|.\-\-."), ShouldBeNone, "Failed e"),
  (re.compile(".\.\_.|.\-\_.|.\_\..|.\_\-.|.\_\_."), ShouldBeNone, "Failed 
f"),
  (re.compile(".\.([a-zA-Z]{2,3})$|.\.([a-zA-Z]{2,4})$"), ShouldNotBeNone, 
"Fai$)


def ValidEmailAddress(address, debug=None):
    for test in tests:
        if test[1](test[0].search(address)):
            if debug: return test[2]
            return 0
    return 1

On Friday 12 April 2002 07:19, Michael Fox wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> Not being a python guru myself, I was wondering if anyone could provide a
> code snippet that checks the value of a dtml-var to see if it's a valid
> email address..?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael Fox
>
>
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