How to validate an email address using Python Script?

Code snippet to validate the email id taken as an input via command line

# Python script to validate input email address

# for system input

import sys

print(sys.argv)

# for regular expression

import re

print "\n" 

email_id = raw_input("Please enter your email id: ")

if re.match("[^@]+@[^@]+\.[^@]+", email_id):

print "Hurray! you have entered a valid email id: ", email_id

else:

print "Better luck next time with a valid email id"