awesome-slugify 1.5

Python flexible slugify function

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awesome-slugify
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**Python flexible slugify function**

| PyPi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/awesome-slugify
| Github: https://github.com/dimka665/awesome-slugify


Install
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.. code-block:: bash

pip install awesome-slugify

Usage
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.. code-block:: python

from slugify import slugify

slugify('Any text') # 'Any-text'

Custom slugify
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.. code-block:: python

from slugify import slugify, Slugify, UniqueSlugify

slugify('Any text', to_lower=True) # 'any-text'

custom_slugify = Slugify(to_lower=True)
custom_slugify('Any text') # 'any-text'

custom_slugify.separator = '_'
custom_slugify('Any text') # 'any_text'

custom_slugify = UniqueSlugify()
custom_slugify('Any text') # 'any-text'
custom_slugify('Any text') # 'any-text-1'

slugify function optional args
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.. code-block:: python

to_lower # if True convert text to lowercase
max_length # output string max length
separator # separator string
capitalize # if True upper first letter


Slugify class args
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.. code-block:: python

pretranslate = None # function or dict for replace before translation
translate = unidecode.unidecode # function for slugifying or None
safe_chars = '' # additional safe chars
stop_words = () # remove these words from slug

to_lower = False # default to_lower value
max_length = None # default max_length value
separator = '-' # default separator value
capitalize = False # default capitalize value

UniqueSlugify class args
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.. code-block:: python
all slugify class args +
uids = [] # initial unique ids

Predefined slugify functions
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Some slugify functions is predefined this way:

.. code-block:: python

from slugify import Slugify, CYRILLIC, GERMAN, GREEK

slugify = Slugify()
slugify_unicode = Slugify(translate=None)

slugify_url = Slugify()
slugify_url.to_lower = True
slugify_url.stop_words = ('a', 'an', 'the')
slugify_url.max_length = 200

slugify_filename = Slugify()
slugify_filename.separator = '_'
slugify_filename.safe_chars = '-.'
slugify_filename.max_length = 255

slugify_ru = Slugify(pretranslate=CYRILLIC)
slugify_de = Slugify(pretranslate=GERMAN)
slugify_el = Slugify(pretranslate=GREEK)

Examples
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.. code-block:: python

from slugify import Slugify, slugify, slugify_unicode
from slugify import slugify_url, slugify_filename
from slugify import slugify_ru, slugify_de

slugify('one kožušček') # one-kozuscek
slugify('one two three', separator='.') # one.two.three
slugify('one two three four', max_length=12) # one-two-four (12 chars)
slugify('one TWO', to_lower=True) # one-two
slugify('one TWO', capitalize=True) # One-TWO

slugify_filename(u'Дrаft №2.txt') # Draft_2.txt
slugify_url(u'Дrаft №2.txt') # draft-2-txt

my_slugify = Slugify()
my_slugify.separator = '.'
my_slugify.pretranslate = {'я': 'i', '♥': 'love'}
my_slugify('Я ♥ борщ') # I.love.borshch (custom translate)

slugify('Я ♥ борщ') # Ia-borshch (standard translation)
slugify_ru('Я ♥ борщ') # Ya-borsch (alternative russian translation)
slugify_unicode('Я ♥ борщ') # Я-борщ (sanitize only)

slugify_de('ÜBER Über slugify') # UEBER-Ueber-slugify

my_slugify = UniqueSlugify(separator='_')
my_slugify('one TWO') # One_TWO
my_slugify('one TWO') # One_TWO_1