Provide a generic slugify function in checkbox-support

[pieqq]

Enhancement Proposal

Over time, a lot of Checkbox tests have developed their own "slugify" function to deal with naming issues:

• checkbox-support/checkbox_support/parsers/udevadm.py
• providers/resource/bin/graphics_card_resource.py
• providers/resource/bin/snapd_resource.py

While raising #1510, we found out it would be better to have a single slugify function that could be called from everywhere it's required.

This function should be located in checkbox-support/checkbox_support/helpers.

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The internal ticket has been created: https://warthogs.atlassian.net/browse/CHECKBOX-1593.

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[pieqq]

Good to know: Checkbox internals also have its own slugify function:

checkbox/checkbox-ng/plainbox/impl/runner.py

Lines 60 to 65 in fd2a403

	def slugify(_string):
	"""Transform any string to one that can be used in filenames."""
	valid_chars = frozenset(
	"-_.{}{}".format(string.ascii_letters, string.digits)
	)
	return "".join(c if c in valid_chars else "_" for c in _string)