def slug_from_iter(it, max_len=128, delim='-'):
    """Produce a slug (short URI-friendly string) from an iterable (list, tuple, dict)

    >>> slug_from_iter(['.a.', '=b=', '--alpha--'])
    'a-b-alpha'
    """

    nonnull_values = [str(v) for v in it if v or ((isinstance(v, (int, float, Decimal)) and str(v)))]
    return slugify(delim.join(shorten(v, max_len=int(float(max_len) / len(nonnull_values)))
                              for v in nonnull_values), word_boundary=True)
Produce a slug (short URI-friendly string) from an iterable (list, tuple, dict)

    >>> slug_from_iter(['.a.', '=b=', '--alpha--'])
    'a-b-alpha'