A monkey patch (or guerrilla patch) is a piece of code that extends or modifies another piece of code at runtime. It is not recommended to use monkey patches often; however, sometimes, they are the only possible way to fix a bug in third-party modules, without creating a separate branch of the module. Also, monkey patching can be used to prepare functional or unit tests, without using complex database or file manipulations.
In this recipe, you will learn how to exchange the default slugify() function with the one from the third-party transliterate module, which handles the conversion of Unicode characters to ASCII equivalents more intelligently, and includes a number of language packs that provide even more specific transformations, as needed. As a quick reminder, we use the slugify() utility to create...
