def slugify(string):
"""Produce a URL-friendly string from the input.
XHTML entities are converted to unicode, and then replaced with the
best-choice ascii equivalents.
:param string: A title, name, etc
:type string: unicode
:returns: Ascii URL-friendly slug
:rtype: unicode
"""
string = unicode(string).lower()
# Replace xhtml entities
string = entities_to_unicode(string)
# Transliterate to ASCII, as best as possible:
string = unidecode(string)
# String may now contain '[?]' triplets to describe unknown characters.
# These will be stripped out by the following regexes.
string = _whitespace.sub(u'-', string)
string = _non_alpha.sub(u'', string)
string = _extra_dashes.sub(u'-', string).strip('-')
return string[:SLUG_LENGTH]
def test_entities_to_unicode(self):
testtext = 'Playing Toccata & Fugue <script>evil/script</script>'
testtextunicode = entities_to_unicode(testtext)
assert_equals(testtextunicode, 'Playing Toccata & Fugue evil/script')
def test_entities_to_unicode(self):
testtext = 'Playing Toccata & Fugue <script>evil/script</script>'
testtextunicode = entities_to_unicode(testtext)
assert_equals(testtextunicode, 'Playing Toccata & Fugue evil/script')