Django raising 404 with a message

Question

I like to raise 404 with some error message at different places in the script eg: Http404(\"some error msg: %s\" %msg) So, in my urls.py I included:

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Answer 1

You can return a plain HttpResponse object with a status code (in this case 404)

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response

def my_view(request):
    template_context = {}

    # ... some code that leads to a custom 404

    return render_to_response("my_template.html", template_context, status=404)