Populating django field with pre_save()?

@receiver(pre_save, sender=TodoList)
def my_callback(sender, instance, *args, **kwargs):
    instance.slug = slugify(instance.title)

Most likely you are referring to django's pre_save signal. You could setup something like this:

from django.db.models.signals import pre_save
from django.dispatch import receiver
from django.template.defaultfilters import slugify

@receiver(pre_save)
def my_callback(sender, instance, *args, **kwargs):
    instance.slug = slugify(instance.title)

If you dont include the sender argument in the decorator, like @receiver(pre_save, sender=MyModel), the callback will be called for all models.

You can put the code in any file that is parsed during the execution of your app, models.py is a good place for that.