Thanks to Rob Forman (https://github.com/robforman) and Ben Olive (https://github.com/sionide21) for helping come up with the general process for parsing.
Parse email addresses from an outlook-like "To:" field.
The nice thing about this parser is you could give it a ridiculously jacked up list of emails: no commas, no names, names and emails stuck together (no spaces), and it'll still parse that string and give you a pretty list back.
To use:
from eparser.parsers import email_address_parser
...
emails = email_address_parser.parse(some_email_list)
Alternatively, you can instantiate your own with a list of additional bad tokens you want stripped from names:
from eparser.parsers import EmailAddressParser
parser = EmailAddressParser(bad_tokens=[";"])
emails = parser.parse(some_email_list)
String and Unicode representations are in the format: "Foo Bar" <foo@bar.com>
If there is no name, it's just the email.