Slugify strings with pure Regex and Python
There are many libs to do slugify, that’s cool. but if you just want to slugify simple strings without any dependency, you may want to try:
import re
def slugify(s: str) -> str:
s_after_basic_replacement = re.sub("[^a-zA-Z0-9]", "-", s)
s_with_no_continues_dash = re.sub("[-]+", "-", s_after_basic_replacement)
s_with_no_ending_dash = re.sub("-$", "", s_with_no_continues_dash)
return s_with_no_ending_dash
if __name__ == '__main__':
print(slugify("is this a good title? "))
# is-this-a-good-title
purely simple regex (yes, I agree, I’m bad at regex, so I copy/pasted all from stackoverflow)
- 2020-05-23
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