doc/source/vmm_emailaddress.rst
author Pascal Volk <neverseen@users.sourceforge.net>
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:35:25 +0000
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Moved VirtualMailManager/Exceptions to VirtualMailManager/errors. Renamed VMM*Exception classes to *Error. No longer add the attribute 'message' to VMMError if it doesn't exist, like in Python 2.4. It has been deprecated as of Python 2.6. Also removed the methods code() and msg(), the values are now accessible via the attributes 'code' and 'msg'.

:mod:`VirtualMailManager.EmailAddress` --- Handling of e-mail addresses
=======================================================================

.. module:: VirtualMailManager.EmailAddress
  :synopsis: Handling of e-mail addresses

.. moduleauthor:: Pascal Volk <neverseen@users.sourceforge.net>

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2


This module provides the :class:`EmailAddress` class to handle validated e-mail
addresses.


EmailAddress
------------

.. class:: EmailAddress(address)

  Creates a new EmailAddress instance.

  :param address: string representation of an e-mail addresses
  :type address: :obj:`basestring`
  :raise VirtualMailManager.errors.EmailAddressError: if the
    *address* is syntactically wrong.
  :raise VirtualMailManager.errors.VMMError: if the validation of the
    local-part or domain name fails.

  An EmailAddress instance has the both read-only attributes:

  .. attribute:: localpart

    The local-part of the address *local-part@domain*


  .. attribute:: domainname

    The domain part of the address *local-part@domain*


Examples
--------

  >>> from VirtualMailManager.EmailAddress import EmailAddress
  >>> john = EmailAddress('john.doe@example.com')
  >>> john.localpart
  'john.doe'
  >>> john.domainname
  'example.com'
  >>> jane = EmailAddress('jane.doe@example.com')
  >>> jane != john
  True
  >>> EmailAddress('info@xn--pypal-4ve.tld') == EmailAddress(u'info@pŠ°ypal.tld')
  True
  >>> jane
  EmailAddress('jane.doe@example.com')
  >>> print john
  john.doe@example.com
  >>>