Move sanitize to external file

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/pyblog b/pyblog
index 11c969c5..de24d075 100755
--- a/pyblog
+++ b/pyblog
@@ -53,20 +53,6 @@ from generators import generators
 from cli import cli
 
 
-def sanitize(string):
-    """Sanitize string (title) for URI consumption."""
-    if isinstance(string, bytes):
-        string = string.decode('utf-8')
-    # to lowercase
-    string = string.lower()
-    # strip all non-word, non-hyphen and non-whitespace characters
-    string = re.sub(r"[^\w\s-]", "", string)
-    # replace consecutive whitespaces with a single hyphen
-    string = re.sub(r"\s+", "-", string)
-    # percent encode the result
-    return urllib.parse.quote(string)
-
-
 def edit_post_with_editor(path):
     """Launch text editor to edit post at a given path.
 
@@ -98,7 +84,7 @@ def new_post(title):
     filename_date = date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
     iso_date = date.isoformat()
     display_date = "%s %d, %d" % (date.strftime("%B"), date.day, date.year)
-    title_sanitized = sanitize(title)
+    title_sanitized = utils.sanitize(title)
     filename = "%s-%s.md" % (filename_date, title_sanitized)
     fullpath = os.path.join(POSTSDIR, filename)
     if not os.path.isdir(POSTSDIR):