#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# A library that provides a Python interface to the Telegram Bot API
# Copyright (C) 2015-2016
# Leandro Toledo de Souza <devs@python-telegram-bot.org>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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#
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"""This module contains functions to validate function arguments"""

from telegram.error import InvalidToken


def validate_token(token):
    """a very basic validation on token"""
    left, sep, _right = token.partition(':')
    if (not sep) or (not left.isdigit()) or (len(left) < 3):
        raise InvalidToken()
    return token