for regexp in [ '^[^A-Za-z_]', '[^A-Za-z0-9_]' ]:

		string = re.compile( regexp ).sub( '_', string )

	return string

# get runtime variables

suffix = sys.argv[0].partition('_')[2]

verbose = os.environ.get( 'verbose' )

jids = []

base = os.environ.get( 'base', '/etc/spectrum' )

if 'jids' in os.environ.keys():

else:

	proc = Popen(['spectrum2_manager', 'list'], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)

	out, err = proc.communicate()

	jids = out.split('\n')[:-1]

# set variables based on wildcard 

if suffix == 'uptime':

	stat = { 'uptime': None }

	title = "Uptime"

	vlabel = "days"

	info = ''

	transformer = lambda value: float(value)/60.0/60.0/24.0