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Slugify in Python 3
- date
2016-12-08T12:54:19Z
- category
blog
- tags
development,python
- url
2016/12/08/slugify-in-python3/
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2016/12/08/slugify-in-python3/index.html
- status
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- author
Gergely Polonkai
Today I needed a function to create a slug (an ASCII-only representation of a string). I went Googling a bit, and found an excellend Flask snippet. Problem is, it is designed for Python 2, so I came up with a Python 3 version.
import re
from unicodedata import normalize
_punctuation_re = re.compile(r'[\t !"#$%&\'()*\-/<=>?@\[\\\]^_`{|},.]+')
def slugify(text, delim='-'):
"""
Generate an ASCII-only slug.
"""
result = []
for word in _punctuation_re.split(text.lower()):
word = normalize('NFKD', word) \
.encode('ascii', 'ignore') \
.decode('utf-8')
if word:
result.append(word)
return delim.join(result)As I don’t really like the transliteration done in the first example (e.g. converting ü to ue), I went with the second example.