Add Helper function to generate random slug

[jmares]

PR link: https://github.com/QuorumUS/walawala/pull/9

New Features

• What feature(s) did you add / how I implemented?
  Added a helper function to generate a random slug of the form dkfiedk59dlskdjfi with the ability to choose a length and a charset. The function uses the random library, and random.SystemRandom() guarantees a random slug. We need to generate urls to access certain pages in our applications, and we wanted urls of the form /url/thing/dkaldkdfoielai29fj/. This PR allows us to import our function anywhere in our Django codebase.
  This is the important line: https://github.com/QuorumUS/walawala/pull/9/files/d68a5c78a9cd5d6d4934272dc159e206521fe075#diff-91adb49ec779b8abb9a0c129bdf2146aR121

New Projects

• What is the project about?
  This project is a collection of mostly string helper functions that reduce code duplication and localizes logic. We do a lot of string parsing and processing, and we found that over time we were writing a lot of little helper functions to do our jobs. Abstracting out that logic into a seperate repo is a more maintainable long term solution.
• Technology Stack
  Briefly list the used technologies and languages and other technical requirements.
  The only technology here is Python
• Roadmap
  I'd like to make this repo more accessible to the rest of the open source community by adding more docstrings and general documentation, which would include a list of all helper functions available in the library.
• How to contribute?
  Anyone can reach out to me via github, twitter (@jmares93), or [email protected].

Note: I know this PR is a little older than 7 days, but its my first contribution so I wanted to try and post it!

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Comments

[codingdefined]

Your contribution cannot be approved because it is not as informative as other contributions. It did not follow the Utopian Rules which says

Simple and common code snippets that can be easily found or reproduced can't be submitted in the development category.

I can see that the you have added a .gitignore file and added a Random function through the line ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits) for _ in range(N)) which is too common. Try to increase the number of features in one PR and submit a contribution in Utopian.

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[jmares]

Oh i see, and this makes sense. Thanks for letting me know!