validations.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import re

def validate_user(username, minlen):
    """Checks if the received username matches the required conditions."""
    if type(username) != str:
        raise TypeError("username must be a string")
    if minlen < 1:
        raise ValueError("minlen must be at least 1")
    
    # Usernames can't be shorter than minlen
    if len(username) < minlen:
        return False
    # Usernames can only use letters, numbers, dots and underscores
    if not re.match('^[a-z0-9._]*$', username):
        return False
   
    # THe first character cannot be a forbidden one

    if not re.match(r'[a-z]', username[0]):

        return False

     # Usernames can't begin with a number
    if username[0].isnumeric():
        return False
    return True

print(validate_user("blue.kale", 3)) # True

print(validate_user(".blue.kale", 3)) # Currently True, should be False

print(validate_user("red_quinoa", 4)) # True

print(validate_user("_red_quinoa", 4)) # Currently True, should be False