How can I validate a stellar address in Python?

Question

I am using python-sdk to perform stellar operations. Now I need to validate a stellar address. I know that the JS sdk has got a function StrKey.isValidEd25519PublicKey(address); however I cannot find the same in Python SDK.

Any idea, how I can do this?

Answer 1

check this out: https://github.com/StellarCN/py-stellar-base/blob/6329db3658c9b646a69c567019d95b41b7363eee/stellar_base/utils.py#L251

def is_valid_address(address):
try:
    return decode_check('account', address)
except (DecodeError, TypeError):
    raise StellarAddressInvalidError('Invalid Stellar Address: {}'.format(address))

Answer 2

Thats how i have done it:

from stellar_sdk.exceptions import Ed25519PublicKeyInvalidError

def check_stellar_address(address):
    try:
        Account(account_id=address, sequence=0)
        return True

    except Ed25519PublicKeyInvalidError:
        return False