To simply validate that an entry looks like an email, you can use the following regex pattern. 

\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,7}\b
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Note that this does not imply that the address is valid - it simply passes the most basic checks for it to resemble a valid address. This regex only validates that the address follows a valid email format:

  • \b matches a word boundary to ensure that the email address is not part of a larger word.
  • [A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+ matches one or more occurrences of alphanumeric characters, dot, underscore, percent, plus, or hyphen, representing the local part of the email address.
  • @ matches the at symbol.
  • [A-Za-z0-9.-]+ matches one or more occurrences of alphanumeric characters, dot, or hyphen, representing the domain name.
  • \. matches a literal dot (escaped with backslash).
  • [A-Za-z]{2,7} matches two to seven occurrences of alphabetic characters, representing the top-level domain (TLD).
  • \b matches a word boundary to ensure that the email address is not part of a larger word.

This pattern enforces the following rules for email addresses:

  • The local part of the email address should contain at least one alphanumeric character, dot, underscore, percent, plus, or hyphen.
  • The domain name should contain at least one alphanumeric character, dot, or hyphen.
  • The TLD should contain two to seven alphabetic characters.
ExampleEdit & Run
import re

text = "Please contact me at john.doe@example.com or info@example.org"
pattern = r'\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,7}\b'
matches = re.findall(pattern, text)
print(matches)

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Output:
['john.doe@example.com', 'info@example.org']
[Finished in 0.016852851025760174s]

In the example above, the re.findall() function is used with the pattern to find all occurrences of email addresses in the given text. The matched email addresses are printed as a list.

ExampleEdit & Run
def is_valid(email):
    import re
    pattern = "^[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,7}$"
    if re.match(pattern, email):
       print("Valid Email")
    else:
       print('Not Valid')

is_valid('someone@somewhere.com')
is_valid('someone@some where.com')
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Output:
Valid Email
Not Valid
[Finished in 0.0170299313031137s]