| 481 | | In [6382] we changed the possible exceptions raised when initialising Django's settings in order not to interfere with Python's {{{help()}}} function. If there is a problem such as not being able to find the settings module (via the {{{DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE}}} environment variable, for example), an `ImportError` is now raised (previously it was `EnvironmentError`). If you try to reconfigure settings after having already used them, a `RuntimeError` is raised (rather than the previous `EnvironmentError`). |
| | 482 | In [6382] we changed the possible exceptions raised when initialising Django's settings in order not to interfere with Python's {{{help()}}} function. If there is a problem such as not being able to find the settings module (via the {{{DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE}}} environment variable, for example), an `ImportError` is now raised (previously it was `EnvironmentError`). If you try to reconfigure settings after having already used them, a `RuntimeError` is raised (rather than the previous `EnvironmentError`). See #5743 for the details of this change. |
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| | 484 | == Generic views' empty defaults == |
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| | 486 | In [6383] the {{{allow_empty}}} parameter to the {{{archive_index()}}} and {{{object_list()}}} generic views were changed to be True by default. So viewing a list of objects that is empty will not raise a 404 HTTP error. Things like date-based views still raise a 404 when there is nothing to view (by default), since viewing a non-existent date is usually going to be an error. See #685 for details. |