From 787acefc73ab458896cd646b0540ea9354ddee41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Malcolm Tredinnick Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 02:24:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #6423 -- Don't fall in a hole in the debug screen if somebody raises an old-fashioned string exception. Thanks, guettli. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@7065 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- django/views/debug.py | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/django/views/debug.py b/django/views/debug.py index 7322682e89..b7ac12db38 100644 --- a/django/views/debug.py +++ b/django/views/debug.py @@ -73,6 +73,12 @@ def technical_500_response(request, exc_type, exc_value, tb): template_info = None template_does_not_exist = False loader_debug_info = None + + # Handle deprecated string exceptions + if isinstance(exc_type, basestring): + exc_value = Exception('Deprecated String Exception: %r' % exc_type) + exc_type = type(exc_value) + if issubclass(exc_type, TemplateDoesNotExist): from django.template.loader import template_source_loaders template_does_not_exist = True