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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _slugify(text, delim=u'-'):
 """Generates an ASCII-only slug."""

    result = []
    for word in _punct_re.split(text.lower()):
        word = word.encode('utf-8')
        if word:
            result.append(word)
    slugified = delim.join([i.decode('utf-8') for i in result])
    return re.sub('[^a-zA-Z0-9\\s\\-]{1}', replace_char, slugified).lower()