String slugification in Python

Question

I am in search of the best way to \"slugify\" string what \"slug\" is, and my current solution is based on this recipe

I have changed it a little bit to:

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Answer 1

Install unidecode form from here for unicode support

pip install unidecode

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import re
import unidecode

def 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