Devin Ben-Hur <dbenhur at whitepages.com> writes:
> Chris,
>
> If you're going to check for symbol validity, wouldn't be better to
> assert the name matches the same rules as the documentation, rather
> than just black-list a couple of exceptions (leading digits and
> hyphen)?

Perfect!  Your regex is way better than what I was considering.

I'll be committing almost exactly that to CVS shortly.

Thanks very much!
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output = ("cbbrowne" "@" "ca.afilias.info")
Christopher Browne
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