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6423	technical_500_response fails on String Exceptions	Luke Garner <dj-t@…>	nobody	"The formated 500 response pages you get with DEBUG = True will fail if the error that is raised is a string, instead of of subclass of python's Exception.

This view:
{{{
#!python
def raise_string_view(request):    
    raise 'String error!'
    return render_to_response('some_template.html', {})
}}}

will throw this exception:
{{{
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File ""/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/servers/basehttp.py"", line 277, in run
    self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response)

  File ""/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/servers/basehttp.py"", line 631, in __call__
    return self.application(environ, start_response)

  File ""/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py"", line 205, in __call__
    response = self.get_response(request)

  File ""/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py"", line 116, in get_response
    return debug.technical_500_response(request, *sys.exc_info())

  File ""/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/views/debug.py"", line 77, in technical_500_response
    if issubclass(exc_type, TemplateDoesNotExist):

TypeError: issubclass() arg 1 must be a class
}}}"		closed	Template system	dev		fixed			Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0