import string alphas = string.letters+'_' nums = string.digits print alphas print nums print 'Welcome to the Identifier Checker v1.0' print 'Testees must be at least 2 chars long.' inp = raw_input('Identifier to test?') if len(inp)>1: if inp[0] not in alphas: print '''invalid: first symbol must be alphabetic''' else: for otherChar in inp[1:]: if otherChar not in alphas + nums: print '''invalid: remaining symbols must be alphanumeric''' break else: print "okey as an identifier"