slugify

gistfile1.py

def asciify(unistr):
    """Returns an ascii string converting accented chars to normal ones.
    Unconvertible chars are just removed.

    >>> asciify(u'Ééüçñøà')
        Eeucna
    """
    return unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', unicode(unistr)).encode('ascii', 'ignore')


def slugify(value):
    """
    Normalizes unicode string, converts to lowercase, removes non-alpha characters,
    and converts spaces to hyphens.
    """
    value = asciify(value)
    value = unicode(re.sub('[^\w\s-]', '', value).strip().lower())
    return mark_safe(re.sub('[-\s]+', '-', value))