alt Hacker News> _canonicalize_table = str.maketrans( "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_.", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz--", )
> ...
> value = name.translate(_canonicalize_table)
> while "--" in value:
> value = value.replace("--", "-")
translate can be wildly fast compared to some commonly used regexes or replacements.
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teaearlgraycold • today at 1:54 AM
I would expect however that a regex replacement would be much faster than your N^2 while loop.
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I am curious, why not .lower().translate('_.', '--')