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 <p>REST framework's views handle various exceptions, and deal with returning appropriate error responses.</p>
 <p>The handled exceptions are:</p>
 <ul>
-<li>Subclasses of <code>APIException</code> raised inside REST framework.</li>
+<li>Subclasses of <code>APIException</code> raised inside of classes subclassing APIView REST framework.</li>
 <li>Django's <code>Http404</code> exception.</li>
 <li>Django's <code>PermissionDenied</code> exception.</li>
 </ul>