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Revision: 46440
at May 19, 2011 16:18 by alvarohurtado84
Initial Code 
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import htmlentitydefs, re
 
def slugfy(text, separator="-"):
	ret = ""
	for c in text.lower():
		try:
			ret += htmlentitydefs.codepoint2name[ord(c)]
		except:
			ret += c
	
	ret = re.sub("([a-zA-Z])(uml|acute|grave|circ|tilde|cedil)", r"\1", ret)
	ret = ret.strip()
	ret = re.sub(" ", "_", ret)
	ret = re.sub("\W", "", ret)
	ret = re.sub("[ _]+", separator, ret)
	 
	return ret.strip()
Initial URL 
http://www.alvarohurtado.es/
Initial Description 
I only did some improvements over another snippet.
Initial Title 
Create better Slugs in Python
Initial Tags 
python, django
Initial Language 
Python