Issues

To catch TemplateSyntaxError exceptions, wrap the render_to_response code e.g:

from django.template import TemplateSyntaxError
try:
    return render_to_response(
        'homepage.html',
        render_dict,
        context_instance=RequestContext(request))
except TemplateSyntaxError e:
    import ipdb
    ipdb.set_trace()
    print e