Re: Checking if email is valid

2023-11-05 Thread gene heskett via Python-list
On 11/5/23 05:32, D'Arcy Cain via Python-list wrote: On 2023-11-05 00:39, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote: Definitely. Syntactic e-mail address "validation" is one of the most useless and widely broken things on the Interwebs.  People who do anything other than require an '@' (and

RE: Checking if email is valid

2023-11-05 Thread AVI GROSS via Python-list
Grant (and others), I am asking about the overall programming process of dealing with email addresses beyond checking the string for some validity. You mentioned requiring you type in your email twice as one example. I generally do a copy/paste to avoid typing or have my browser fill it in.

Re: Checking if email is valid

2023-11-05 Thread Grant Edwards via Python-list
On 2023-11-05, D'Arcy Cain via Python-list wrote: > On 2023-11-05 00:39, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote: >> Definitely. Syntactic e-mail address "validation" is one of the most >> useless and widely broken things on the Interwebs. People who do >> anything other than require an '@' (and

Re: Checking if email is valid

2023-11-05 Thread D'Arcy Cain via Python-list
On 2023-11-05 00:39, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote: Definitely. Syntactic e-mail address "validation" is one of the most useless and widely broken things on the Interwebs. People who do anything other than require an '@' (and optionally make you enter the same @-containing string twice)

Re: pip/pip3 confusion and keeping up to date

2023-11-05 Thread Jon Ribbens via Python-list
On 2023-11-05, Chris Green wrote: > Jon Ribbens wrote: >> On 2023-11-03, Karsten Hilbert wrote: >> > Am Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 04:07:33PM -0600 schrieb Mats Wichmann via >> > Python-list: >> >> >So they now have only python3 and there is no python executable in >> >> >PATH. >> >> >> >> FWIW, for

Help

2023-11-05 Thread office officce via Python-list
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Re: pip/pip3 confusion and keeping up to date

2023-11-05 Thread Karsten Hilbert via Python-list
Am Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 03:00:41PM + schrieb Chris Green via Python-list: > > * contact every single maintainer of every single one of the packages > > that needs updating and persuade them to update their packages and > > reassure them that you are getting all the other package

Safe package removal

2023-11-05 Thread dn via Python-list
After thread: "pip/pip3 confusion and keeping up to date" Over the years?centuries, have added various packages, using all of: - distribution-installer (dnf/yum - per apt-get) - su pip install, and - (user) pip install Because Fedora-Linux can be upgraded in-place. an amount of 'crud'

Re: pip/pip3 confusion and keeping up to date

2023-11-05 Thread Jon Ribbens via Python-list
On 2023-11-05, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > Am Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 01:53:32PM - schrieb Jon Ribbens via Python-list: > >> >> Are they not available in your system's package manager? >> > >> > ... this clearly often answers to "no" for applications of >> > any complexity. >> > >> > Is there a

Re: Checking if email is valid

2023-11-05 Thread D'Arcy Cain via Python-list
On 2023-11-05 06:48, Jon Ribbens via Python-list wrote: Sometimes I think that these sorts of stupid, wrong, validation are the fault of idiot managers. When it's apostrophes though I'm suspicious that it may be idiot programmers who don't know how to prevent SQL injection attacks without just

Re: Checking if email is valid

2023-11-05 Thread Mats Wichmann via Python-list
On 11/5/23 10:34, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote: Indeed. There is a tiny but brightly burning kernel of hate in my heart for web sites (and their developers) that refuse to accept credit card numbers entered with spaces _as_they_are_shown_on_the_card_! I've concluded that using PHP

Re: Checking if email is valid

2023-11-05 Thread Jon Ribbens via Python-list
On 2023-11-05, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-11-05, D'Arcy Cain via Python-list wrote: >> On 2023-11-05 00:39, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote: >>> Definitely. Syntactic e-mail address "validation" is one of the most >>> useless and widely broken things on the Interwebs. People who do >>>

Re: pip/pip3 confusion and keeping up to date

2023-11-05 Thread Karsten Hilbert via Python-list
Am Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 01:53:32PM - schrieb Jon Ribbens via Python-list: > >> Are they not available in your system's package manager? > > > > ... this clearly often answers to "no" for applications of > > any complexity. > > > > Is there a suggested proper path to deal with that (Debian is

Re: Checking if email is valid

2023-11-05 Thread Jon Ribbens via Python-list
On 2023-11-05, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > On 2023-11-05 00:39, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote: >> Definitely. Syntactic e-mail address "validation" is one of the most >> useless and widely broken things on the Interwebs. People who do >> anything other than require an '@' (and optionally make you

Re: pip/pip3 confusion and keeping up to date

2023-11-05 Thread Jon Ribbens via Python-list
On 2023-11-03, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > Am Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 04:07:33PM -0600 schrieb Mats Wichmann via > Python-list: >> >So they now have only python3 and there is no python executable in >> >PATH. >> >> FWIW, for this you install the little stub package python-is-python3. >> Especially if

Re: pip/pip3 confusion and keeping up to date

2023-11-05 Thread Chris Green via Python-list
Jon Ribbens wrote: > On 2023-11-03, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > Am Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 04:07:33PM -0600 schrieb Mats Wichmann via > > Python-list: > >> >So they now have only python3 and there is no python executable in > >> >PATH. > >> > >> FWIW, for this you install the little stub package

Re: pip/pip3 confusion and keeping up to date

2023-11-05 Thread Karsten Hilbert via Python-list
Am Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 05:26:06PM +0100 schrieb Dieter Maurer: > Karsten Hilbert wrote at 2023-11-3 14:47 +0100: > > ... > >> Are they not available in your system's package manager? > > > >... this clearly often answers to "no" for applications of > >any complexity. > > > >Is there a suggested