Method _sanitize_filename_part

dev-tools/scripts/changes2logchange.py:384–425

Sanitize text for use in filenames. - Convert to lowercase - Remove quotes, colons, backticks - Replace other unsafe characters with dashes - Convert any whitespace to single space - Strip leading/trailing spaces and dashes

(text: str)

    @staticmethod
    def _sanitize_filename_part(text: str) -> str:
        """
        Sanitize text for use in filenames.
        - Convert to lowercase
        - Remove quotes, colons, backticks
        - Replace other unsafe characters with dashes
        - Convert any whitespace to single space
        - Strip leading/trailing spaces and dashes
        """
        # Convert to lowercase
        text = text.lower()

        # Normalize all whitespace to single spaces
        text = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', text)

        # Remove quotes, colons, backticks entirely (don't replace with dash)
        text = re.sub(r'["\':´`]', '', text)

        # Replace other unsafe characters (from UNSAFE_CHARS_PATTERN) with dash
        # This covers: < > " / \ | ? * and control characters
        # Note: we already removed quotes and colons above
        text = SlugGenerator.UNSAFE_CHARS_PATTERN.sub('-', text)

        # Replace other non-alphanumeric (except space, dash, and dot) with dash
        text = re.sub(r'[^a-z0-9\s.\-]+', '-', text)

        # Replace multiple consecutive dashes with single dash (but preserve spaces)
        text = re.sub(r'-+', '-', text)

        # Remove trailing dashes before we clean up space-dash sequences
        text = text.rstrip('-')

        # Handle " -" and "- " sequences: collapse to single space
        text = re.sub(r'\s*-\s*', ' ', text)

        # Replace multiple consecutive spaces with single space
        text = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', text)

        # Strip leading/trailing spaces
        text = text.strip(' ')

        return text


class VersionSection: