refactor: added utility to convert title into slug

community/lms/utils.py

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+import re
+
+RE_SLUG_NOTALLOWED = re.compile("[^a-z0-9]+")
+
+def slugify(title, used_slugs=[]):
+    """Converts title to a slug.
+
+    If a list of used slugs is specified, it will make sure the generated slug
+    is not one of them.
+
+        >>> slugify("Hello World!")
+        'hello-world'
+        >>> slugify("Hello World!", ['hello-world'])
+        'hello-world-2'
+        >>> slugify("Hello World!", ['hello-world', 'hello-world-2'])
+        'hello-world-3'
+    """
+    slug = RE_SLUG_NOTALLOWED.sub('-', title.lower()).strip('-')
+    used_slugs = set(used_slugs)
+
+    if slug not in used_slugs:
+        return slug
+
+    count = 2
+    while True:
+        new_slug = f"{slug}-{count}"
+        if new_slug not in used_slugs:
+            return new_slug
+        count = count+1
+