Allow underscore to start instance names (#2335)

sanic-org · Dec 9, 2021 · c0cc260 · c0cc260
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diff --git a/sanic/base.py b/sanic/base.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 from sanic.mixins.signals import SignalMixin
 
 
-VALID_NAME = re.compile(r"^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_\-]*$")
+VALID_NAME = re.compile(r"^[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_\-]*$")
 
 
 class BaseSanic(