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Create better Slugs in Python

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  1. # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
  2. import htmlentitydefs, re
  3.  
  4. def slugfy(text, separator="-"):
  5. 	ret = ""
  6. 	for c in text.lower():
  7. 		try:
  8. 			ret += htmlentitydefs.codepoint2name[ord(c)]
  9. 		except:
  10. 			ret += c
  11.  
  12. 	ret = re.sub("([a-zA-Z])(uml|acute|grave|circ|tilde|cedil)", r"\1", ret)
  13. 	ret = ret.strip()
  14. 	ret = re.sub(" ", "_", ret)
  15. 	ret = re.sub("\W", "", ret)
  16. 	ret = re.sub("[ _]+", separator, ret)
  17.  
  18. 	return ret.strip()

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