Tokyo’s Muslim

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)

This problem was stupid, but I’m sure I’m not the only one who is going to run into it

Status: 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Cache-Control: no-cache
Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT
Content-Length: 3

If you are getting the above message after the output you intended, it is because you are using “print” instead of “self.response.out.write”.  

Dealing with a new class of problem :/ How to deal with 10k connections simultaneously? (Google app engine is looking more and more attractive.)