Django error tracebacks

[John Gordon]

I've been developing in Django for a while now and I often find that when
there is an exception in a view I'm working on, the error traceback screen
does not show the actual error; instead it claims the error occurred in
django itself (usually .../django/core/handlers/base.py).

Why is this?

(I'm using Django 1.3 instead of the current 1.4 version, but still, this
seems like a pretty basic thing to get wrong.)

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