# Slugifies a string, e.g.  "My IAM account" => "my-iam-account"
def slugify(str):
    allowed_characters = (
        "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-_"
    )
    new_string = []
    for i in range(len(str)):
        char = str[i]
        if char not in allowed_characters:
            char = "-"
        new_string.append(char)

    return "".join(new_string).strip().lower()