Module python_markdown 

Python-Markdown anchor generation (used by MkDocs)

This module implements the exact slugify algorithm from Python-Markdown’s toc extension, which is the default used by MkDocs.

Algorithm (from markdown/extensions/toc.py):

1. NFKD Unicode normalization, then encode to ASCII (ignore errors)
2. Remove all characters except \w, \s, and -
3. Lowercase and strip leading/trailing whitespace
4. Collapse consecutive hyphens and whitespace into a single separator

Verified against Python-Markdown 3.x via:

uv run --with markdown python3 -c "
from markdown.extensions.toc import slugify
print(slugify('Your Heading', '-'))
"

Functions

heading_to_fragment

Generate a Python-Markdown style anchor fragment from heading text.