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Python Python for File Systems Project Starter Feeling Sluggish

Posted by Andrew Noland
Andrew Noland
17,670 Points

Completely stuck please help

Challenge Task 1 of 1 I made a slugify function in the last video, but that is just one approach to making a slug. I want you to make your own slugify function in slug.py. Your function should accept two arguments, a string to make into an acceptable file or directory name, and a path.

The rules? Slugs should be unique for their path (you can't have two files or directories with the same name in the same directory), slugs shouldn't have spaces in them, and slug should start with a number, letter, or underscore. Other than that, it's up to you!

slug.py 
import os
import re

def slugify(slug, path):
    slug = unicodedata.normalize('NFKC', slug)
    slug = re.sub(r'[^\w\s]', '', slug).strip().lower()
    slug = re.sub(r'[_-\s]+', '_', slug)
    dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.join(path, slug))
    try: 
        os.makedirs(dir)
    except:
        sys.exit()