In Python, identify parts of an e-mail address

Question

Given a list of e-mail addresses:

list = ('First Last <[email protected]>' , '[email protected]')

some of which contain first and last name, others which just contain an e-mail address, how can I loop through the list and extract a first and last name (if they exist), and the email address?

Thanks.

Answer 1

import email.utils
map(email.utils.parseaddr, email_list)