Returning Django exceptions in plain text

Question

Errors caught by Django in DEBUG mode are returned in HTML-formatted code for browser display. I'd like to have those errors display in plain text (or JSON) instead. Is there a way to do that?

Answer 1

I think you could modify the templates found in this file: https://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/views/debug.py

Change TECHNICAL_500_TEMPLATE, TECHNICAL_404_TEMPLATE, and EMPTY_URLCONF_TEMPLATE to display plaintext.

Answer 2

Not a direct solution, but perhaps throwing django-sentry into the mix would allow you to do something more with the errors reported? Im still new to it myself.