Django error: render_to_response() got an unexpected keyword argument 'context_instance'

Question

After upgrading to Django 1.10, I get the error render_to_response() got an unexpected keyword argument \'context_instance\'.

My view is as follows:

Answer 1

Django 2.0.7 python 3.5

in project/urls.py

handler404 = 'project.views.not_found'
handler500 = 'project.views.server_error'

in project/views.py

def not_found(request, exception=None):
response = render(request, '404.html', {})
response.status_code = 404
return response

def server_error(request, exception=None):
response = render(request, '500.html', {})
response.status_code = 500
return response

exception=None is passed because otherwise it throws TypeError: server_error() missing 1 required positional argument: 'exception'