I agree

On Jun 2, 12:30 pm, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
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> > The reason for underscored is that they are not visible when links are
> > undelined.
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> They could be treated like spaces (replaced with hyphens).
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> > On Jun 2, 11:34 am, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Jun 2, 2011, at 8:53 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
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> >>> Use IS_SLUG.urlify(...)
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> >>> I will remove the latter. Was never intended to be there.
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> >> There are a couple of things that could be fixed in urlify.
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> >>>     def urlify(value, maxlen=80):
> >>>         s = value.decode('utf-8').lower()    # to lowercase utf-8
> >>>         s = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', s) # normalize eg è => e, ñ => n
> >>>         s = s.encode('ASCII', 'ignore')      # encode as ASCII
> >>>         s = re.sub('&\w+?;', '', s)          # strip html entities
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> >> the '?' is redundant here
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> >>>         s = re.sub('[^a-z0-9\-\s]', '', s)   # strip all but 
> >>> alphanumeric/hyphen/space
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> >> the comment says 'space' but the pattern retains other whitespace. See 
> >> next line.
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> >>>         s = s.replace(' ', '-')              # spaces to hyphens
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> >> if the previous line stays \s, then this should be \s as well
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> >>>         s = re.sub('--+', '-', s)            # collapse strings of hyphens
> >>>         s = s.strip('-')                     # remove leading and traling 
> >>> hyphens
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> >> 'trailing'
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> >>>         return s[:maxlen].strip('-')         # enforce maximum length
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> >> should strip first, then enforce maxlen
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> >> I wonder whether it's such a great idea to strip underscores.

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