Jawaad Mahmood in Tokyo

My current project is building a mobile website for Japanese cellphones that can stand about 10-20k hits within an hour without getting completely trashed.  Admittedly, this isn’t exactly the easiest thing in the world to do, but Google App engine makes it a lot easier.  In the process, I had to brush up on my Python, and in particular, email validation.

The obvious way to deal with email validation is to use google’s “mail.is_email_valid” function.  Unfortunately, this seems to return true as long as you have a string, as it mentions on Aral Balkan’s helpful post on the subject.  I had to dig a little more to find out how to use mail_re; here’s the code for anyone curious.

from django.core.validators import email_re

print (email_re.match(‘test_email@fakedomain.com’) != None)

print (email_re.match(‘bademail’) != None)