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@@ -245,6 +245,13 @@ request to the URL ``/rss/beats/0613/``:
subclass of ``ObjectDoesNotExist``. Raising ``ObjectDoesNotExist`` in
``get_object()`` tells Django to produce a 404 error for that request.
+ **New in Django development version:** The ``get_object()`` method also
+ has a chance to handle the ``/rss/beats/`` url. In this case, ``bits``
+ will be an empty list. In our example, ``len(bits) != 1`` and an
+ ``ObjectDoesNotExist`` exception will be raised, so ``/rss/beats/`` will
+ generate a 404 page. But you can handle this case however you like. For
+ example you could generate a combined feed for all beats.
+
* To generate the feed's ``<title>``, ``<link>`` and ``<description>``,
Django uses the ``title()``, ``link()`` and ``description()`` methods. In
the previous example, they were simple string class attributes, but this