#!/usr/bin/env python

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""" environment variable utility functions """

import os
import re


def check_varnames(env):
    """ check a bunch of putative environment names for legality,
    returns a list of bad names (empty implies success)."""
    bad = []
    for varname in env:
        if not re.match('^[a-zA-Z_][\w]*$', varname):
            bad.append(varname)
    return bad


def expandvars(item, owner=None):
    if owner:
        homedir = os.path.expanduser('~' + owner)
    else:
        homedir = os.environ['HOME']
    # first replace '$HOME' with actual home dir
    item = item.replace('$HOME', homedir)
    # now expand any other environment variable or tilde-username
    item = os.path.expandvars(os.path.expanduser(item))
    return item
