pyIsEmail

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Getting Started

pyIsEmail is a no-nonsense approach for checking whether that user-supplied email address could be real. Sick of not being able to use email address tagging_ to sort through your Bacn_? We can fix that.

Regular expressions are cheap to write, but often require maintenance when new top-level domains come out or don't conform to email addressing features that come back into vogue. pyIsEmail allows you to validate an email address -- and even check the domain, if you wish -- with one simple call, making your code more readable and faster to write. When you want to know why an email address doesn't validate, we even provide you with a diagnosis.

.. _email address tagging: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Address_tags .. _Bacn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacn

Install

Install from PyPI using pip_, a package manager for Python.

.. code-block:: bash

$ pip install pyIsEmail

Don't have pip installed? Try installing it by running this from the command line:

.. code-block:: bash

$ curl https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py | python

Or you can download the source code (zip)_ for pyIsEmail and then run:

.. code-block:: bash

$ python setup.py install

You may need to run the above commands with sudo.

.. _pip: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/ .. _download the source code (zip): https://github.com/michaelherold/pyIsEmail/zipball/master

Usage

For the simplest usage, import and use the is_email function:

.. code-block:: python

from pyisemail import is_email

address = "[email protected]"
bool_result = is_email(address)
detailed_result = is_email(address, diagnose=True)

You can also check whether the domain used in the email is a valid domain and whether or not it has a valid MX record:

.. code-block:: python

from pyisemail import is_email

address = "[email protected]"
bool_result_with_dns = is_email(address, check_dns=True)
detailed_result_with_dns = is_email(address, check_dns=True, diagnose=True)

These are primary indicators of whether an email address can even be issued at that domain. However, a valid response here is not a guarantee that the email exists, merely that is can exist.

If you want to limit using a gTLD_ as the domain part of the email address, you can do so with a flag:

.. code-block:: python

from pyisemail import is_email

address = "thiswont@workatall"
bool_result_with_check = is_email(address, allow_gtld=False)
detailed_result_with_check = is_email(address, allow_gtld=False, diagnose=True)

In addition to the base is_email functionality, you can also use the validators by themselves. Check the validator source doe to see how this works.

.. _gTLD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain

Uninstall

Want to get rid of pyIsEmail? Did you install with pip? Here you go:

.. code-block:: bash

$ pip uninstall pyIsEmail

Acknowledgements

The base ParserValidator is based off of Dominic Sayers' is_email script. I wanted the functionality in Python, so I ported it from the original PHP.

.. _Dominic Sayers: https://github.com/dominicsayers .. _is_email script: https://github.com/dominicsayers/isemail

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Versioning

This library aims to adhere to Semantic Versioning 2.0.0_. Violations of this scheme should be reported as bugs.

.. _Semantic Versioning 2.0.0: http://semver.org/

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2015 Michael Herold. Open sourced under the terms of the MIT license_.

.. _MIT license: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

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