Convert String to Kebab Case in Python (Challenge)

Introduction

In Python, a kebab case string is a string where each word is separated by a hyphen. For example, "hello-world" is a kebab case string. In this challenge, you will be tasked with writing a function that converts a given string to kebab case.

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Kebabcase string

Problem

Write a Python function called to_kebab_case(s) that takes a string s as its input and returns the kebab case version of the string. The function should perform the following steps:

Replace any - or _ with a space, using the regexp r"(_|-)+".

Match all words in the string, str.lower() to lowercase them.

Combine all words using - as the separator.

Example

to_kebab_case('camelCase') ## 'camel-case' to_kebab_case('some text') ## 'some-text' to_kebab_case('some-mixed_string With spaces_underscores-and-hyphens') ## 'some-mixed-string-with-spaces-underscores-and-hyphens' to_kebab_case('AllThe-small Things') ## 'all-the-small-things'