slugify

slugify.py

#!/bin/env python2
# encoding: utf-8

import re
try:
    from unidecode import unidecode
except ImportError:
    Exception("pip install unidecode")


def slugify(s, maxlen=255):
    s = s.lower()
    s = unidecode(s)
    s = s.replace('/', '-')
    s = re.sub(r'[^a-z0-9- ]+', ' ', s)
    s = re.sub(r'\s+', '-', s)
    s = re.sub(r'-+', '-', s)
    s = s.strip('-')
    return s[:maxlen]