this has been filed as bug 3070

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3070

thanks

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 18:16, Ikai L (Google) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> Yes, please file an issue in our issue tracker:
> http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
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