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How to Slugify a String in Python
Convert any text into a URL-friendly slug using the standard library's unicodedata and re modules.
import re
import unicodedata
def slugify(text):
text = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', text)
text = text.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')
text = re.sub(r'[^\w\s-]', '', text).strip().lower()
text = re.sub(r'[-\s]+', '-', text)
return text
if __name__ == "__main__":
title = "Hello, Worl…Python: Replace Spaces with Hyphens for Slug
Transform a string by stripping surrounding whitespace and replacing each space with a hyphen to create a simple slug.
def slugify(text):
return text.strip().replace(" ", "-")
if __name__ == "__main__":
title = "Hello World Python Example"
result = slugify(title)
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