Django Pattern for Reporting Errors/Messages in Views

I've tried tried to find a decent way to design my Django views so that I can smoothly report errors to users.  The errors that I am concerned about are errors that users encounter if they are preforming actions that are typically NOT normally encountered through normal use of the user interface.  For example, if users try to directly access a URL of an object that doesn't exist, if they post incorrect values to a URL, or a required value doesn't exist in the user's session.

In a utility module, I create a message class that I to store message information.  While view processing is taking place, if an error takes place, this class will be used to store the error title, text, and "back" url link.

core/utils.py

class UserMessage():
    def __init__(self, title="", text=[], url=None):
        self.title = title
        self.text = text if hasattr(text, '__iter__') else [text]
        self.url = url 

The view continually checks for the existance of a UserMessage instance.  (In the example below, "message" variable is an instance of UserMessage)  If an error condition occurs, part of the handing will be to create a new UserMessage, and the view renders an error page using the template defined by message_template_name and the variables set in the UserMessage instance.

myapp/views.py

def  detail_view(request, myobject_slug, template_name="", 
                 message_template_name="core/message.html"):
    context = {}
    message = None
    if not message: 
        # call custom manager method; pass in message for error handling
        myobject, message = MyObject.objects.get_myobject(myobject_slug, message)
    if not message:
        if not myobject.is_authroized(...):   # do come check here 
            message = utils.UserMessage("Permission Denied",  
                     "You are not authorized to view this.") 
    if not message:
        if myobject.is_wrong_type(...):   # do some check here
            message = utils.UserMessage("Invalid Type",   
                    "This is the wrong type")
            message.url = reverse('index')
    if not message:
        # normal view stuff here  
        form = forms.MyForm(....)
        if request.method == "POST":
            form = forms.MyForm(data=request.POST, ....)
            if form.is_valid():
                form.save() 
                # do other stuff here as needed
                return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('success_page'))
    else:
        template_name=message_template_name
        context.update({'message':message})
    return render_to_response(template_name, context,
                              context_instance=RequestContext(request))

Create a message template to display the errors.

templates/message.html

{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block title %}{{ block.super }}{{ message.title }}{% endblock title %} 

{% block content %} 
<div>
  <div>{{ message.title }}</div>
  {% for text in message.text %}
  <div>{{ text }}</div>
  {% endfor %}
  <div><a href="{{ message.url }}">Back</a></div>
</div>
{% endblock content %} 

With some modifications, this method can be used with ajax requests.  Note that I do not recommend using the system for catching Django form errors.  Django handles that nicely as it is.

There are probably better approaches for this sort of thing, but this approach seems to work for me in many cases.  Hope it's useful.  Comments welcome.
Joe