+1
On May 30, 1:12 am, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 29, 2010, at 9:39 PM, mdipierro wrote: > > > The one your propose fails two of our tests: > > Failed example: > > IS_EMAIL()('a...@d_-f.us') > > Expected: > > ('a...@d_-f.us', None) > > Got: > > ('a...@d_-f.us', 'enter a valid email address') > > Underscores are not allowed, but we accept them because they've been used > historically and there's no compelling reason (in a validator) to reject > them. If we were actually allocating domain names, there'd be a reason do so, > but we're not. > > We should also keep in mind that there's no way we can guarantee that the > address that gets typed in is correct (in the sense of not having a typo, > even if it's syntactically correct). Mainly, we want to check that it "looks > like" an email address, and err on the side of permissiveness. > > > ********************************************************************** > > File "gluon/validators.py", line 859, in __main__.IS_EMAIL > > Failed example: > > IS_EMAIL()('local...@localhost') # localhost as domain > > Expected: > > ('local...@localhost', None) > > Got: > > ('local...@localhost', 'enter a valid email address') > > ********************************************************************** > > > On May 29, 9:36 pm, blackthorne <[email protected]> wrote: > >>http://fightingforalostcause.net/misc/2006/compare-email-regex.php > > >> Take it as a suggestion for a better email regex validator...
