Question

Can someone please post a python snippet to create a link based on the title, like in stackoverflow (or wordpress)…

e.g.

title : Global across "Modules" ?
corresponding link : http://example.com/8277516/globals-across-modules

I do not need any chars other than alphabets or numbers or ‘-‘. Also i don’t need the starting or ending character of the output string to be ‘-‘

Answer 1

How about this:

>>> import re
>>> s = 'Global across "Modules" ?'
>>> '-'.join(item.lower() for item in re.findall(r'\w+', s))
'global-across-modules'

This works on Python 2; there it will keep only ASCII alphanumeric characters. Under Python 3, it will also keep Unicode alphanumerics, which might not be what you want.