String slugification in Python
There is a python package named python-slugify
, which does a pretty good job of slugifying:
pip install python-slugify
Works like this:
from slugify import slugifytxt = "This is a test ---"r = slugify(txt)self.assertEquals(r, "this-is-a-test")txt = "This -- is a ## test ---"r = slugify(txt)self.assertEquals(r, "this-is-a-test")txt = 'C\'est déjà l\'été.'r = slugify(txt)self.assertEquals(r, "cest-deja-lete")txt = 'Nín hǎo. Wǒ shì zhōng guó rén'r = slugify(txt)self.assertEquals(r, "nin-hao-wo-shi-zhong-guo-ren")txt = 'Компьютер'r = slugify(txt)self.assertEquals(r, "kompiuter")txt = 'jaja---lol-méméméoo--a'r = slugify(txt)self.assertEquals(r, "jaja-lol-mememeoo-a")
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This package does a bit more than what you posted (take a look at the source, it's just one file). The project is still active (got updated 2 days before I originally answered, over seven years later (last checked 2020-06-30), it still gets updated).
careful: There is a second package around, named slugify
. If you have both of them, you might get a problem, as they have the same name for import. The one just named slugify
didn't do all I quick-checked: "Ich heiße"
became "ich-heie"
(should be "ich-heisse"
), so be sure to pick the right one, when using pip
or easy_install
.
Install unidecode form from here for unicode support
pip install unidecode
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-import reimport unidecodedef slugify(text): text = unidecode.unidecode(text).lower() return re.sub(r'[\W_]+', '-', text)text = u"My custom хелло ворлд"print slugify(text)
>>> my-custom-khello-vorld
There is python package named awesome-slugify:
pip install awesome-slugify
Works like this:
from slugify import slugifyslugify('one kožušček') # one-kozuscek