slugify.py

# https://github.com/mozilla/unicode-slugify/blob/master/slugify/__init__.py
import re
import unicodedata

from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode

# Extra characters outside of alphanumerics that we'll allow.
SLUG_OK = '-_~'


def slugify(s, ok=SLUG_OK, lower=True, spaces=False):
    # L and N signify letter/number.
    # http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44/tr44-4.html#GC_Values_Table
    rv = []
    for c in unicodedata.normalize('NFKC', smart_unicode(s)):
        cat = unicodedata.category(c)[0]
        if cat in 'LN' or c in ok:
            rv.append(c)
        if cat == 'Z':  # space
            rv.append(' ')
    new = ''.join(rv).strip()
    if not spaces:
        new = re.sub('[-\s]+', '-', new)
    return new.lower() if lower else new