What is a “slug” in Django?

Question

When I read Django code I often see in models what is called a \"slug\". I am not quite sure what this is, but I do know it has something to do with URLs. How and when is th

Answer 1

slug

A short label for something, containing only letters, numbers, underscores or hyphens. They’re generally used in URLs. For example, in a typical blog entry URL:

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/apr/12/spring/ the last bit (spring) is the slug.