Why django urls end with a slash?

Question

Django official documentation and other tutorials on the web always use a trailing slash at the end of url. ex:

url(r\'^accounts/login/\', views.login)  # lo         


        

Answer 1

"URLs should be beautiful"!!! I want to be able to control URLs. It's nothing nice when everything is about to be overwritten. Under circumstances, I make a redirect loop which is not funny.

from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect as rdrct

url(r'^sitemap.xml$', 'my_app.views.custom_sm'),

url(r'^sitemap.xml/$', lambda x: rdrct('/sitemap.xml')),