Question/Bug: how do I preserve dashes and not replace them with separator?

I am trying to slugify a string, replacing non-matching characters with an underscore, but I don’t want to consider a dash a non-matching character. This is easily achieved with regex but it looks like there is some special slugify behaviour when it comes to dashes which is preventing this working. I can’t see anything in the docs or code, about how to work around this.

What did I do?

slugify.slugify("test-foo bar", separator='_', regex_pattern=r'[^-a-zA-Z0-9_]+')

What happened? test_foo_bar

What did I expect? test-foo_bar

[adamcunnington-mlg]

@PradeepTammali workaround is something like this:

s = str.replace('-', 'thisSucks')
slugify(s, separator='_', regex_pattern='[^a-zA-Z0-9_]+').replace('thisSucks', '-')

[un33k]

@PradeepTammali Slugify needs one reserved character, and since the name of the package is slugify its job is to convert some random text to a dash-delimited clean text for use in URLs. With that said, the delimiter can also be changed to whatever user wants. In short, the ask here is not doable. I encourage channelling one’s energy to raising a meaningful PR instead.