How do I replace whitespaces with underscore?

Question

I want to replace whitespace with underscore in a string to create nice URLs. So that for example:

\"This should be connected\" becomes \"This_should_be_conn         


        

Answer 1

I'm using the following piece of code for my friendly urls:

from unicodedata import normalize
from re import sub

def slugify(title):
    name = normalize('NFKD', title).encode('ascii', 'ignore').replace(' ', '-').lower()
    #remove `other` characters
    name = sub('[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]', '', name)
    #nomalize dashes
    name = sub('-+', '-', name)

    return name

It works fine with unicode characters as well.