slugify

slugify.py

def slugify(value):
    """
    Normalizes string, converts to lowercase, removes non-alpha characters,
    and converts spaces to hyphens.

    Took from django sources.
    """
    value = Markup(value).striptags()
    if type(value) == unicode:
        import unicodedata
        from unidecode import unidecode
        value = unicode(unidecode(value))
        value = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', value).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
    value = unicode(re.sub('[^\w\s-]', '', value).strip().lower())
    return re.sub('[-\s]+', '-', value)