Removed "Don't do that" from docs and error messages.

It's slightly aggressive and doesn't explain itself.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/django/views/generic/base.py b/django/views/generic/base.py
index 0d6e31e195..3dd957d8f8 100644
--- a/django/views/generic/base.py
+++ b/django/views/generic/base.py
@@ -50,9 +50,10 @@ class View:
         """Main entry point for a request-response process."""
         for key in initkwargs:
             if key in cls.http_method_names:
-                raise TypeError("You tried to pass in the %s method name as a "
-                                "keyword argument to %s(). Don't do that."
-                                % (key, cls.__name__))
+                raise TypeError(
+                    'The method name %s is not accepted as a keyword argument '
+                    'to %s().' % (key, cls.__name__)
+                )
             if not hasattr(cls, key):
                 raise TypeError("%s() received an invalid keyword %r. as_view "
                                 "only accepts arguments that are already "