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#
# Create slugs, derived from django's JS implementation
#
# name = "This IS A boOk's TiTle"
# slug = slugify(name)
#
# >>> print slug
# 'this-is-a-books-title'
#
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import re

def slugify(inStr):
    removelist = ["a", "an", "as", "at", "before", "but", "by", "for","from","is", "in", "into", "like", "of", "off", "on", "onto","per","since", "than", "the", "this", "that", "to", "up", "via","with"];
    for a in removelist:
        aslug = re.sub(r'\b'+a+r'\b','',inStr)
    aslug = re.sub('[^\w\s-]', '', aslug).strip().lower()
    aslug = re.sub('\s+', '-', aslug)
    return aslug