Generate an ASCII-only slug based off of a unicode string.

slugify.py

from unidecode import unidecode

# Regular expression to match most "punctuation"
punctuation_re = re.compile(r'[\t !"#$%&\'()*\-/<=>?@\[\\\]^_`{|},.]+')


def slugify(text, delimiter=u'-'):
    """Generates an ASCII-only slug."""
    result = []
    for word in punctuation_re.split(text.lower()):
        if isinstance(word, unicode):
            word = unidecode(word)
        result.extend(word.split())
    return unicode(delimiter.join(result))