> _canonicalize_table = str.maketrans( "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_.", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz--", )

> ...

> value = name.translate(_canonicalize_table)

> while "--" in value:

> value = value.replace("--", "-")

translate can be wildly fast compared to some commonly used regexes or replacements.

est 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I am curious, why not .lower().translate('_.', '--')

	▲	fwip 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		.lower() has to handle Unicode, right? I imagine the giant tables slow it down a bit.

I would expect however that a regex replacement would be much faster than your N^2 while loop.

	▲	notpushkin 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It would be, if it was a common situation. This loop handles cases like `eggtools._spam` → `eggtools-spam`, which is probably rare (I guess it’s for packages that export namespaced modules, and you probably don’t want to export _private modules; sorry in advance for non-pythonic terminology). Having more than two separator characters in a row is even more unusual.