Bottle.py error routing

Question

Bottle.py ships with an import to handle throwing HTTPErrors and route to a function.

Firstly, the documentation claims I can (and so do several examples):

Answer 1

This works for me:

from bottle import error, run, route, abort

@error(500)
def custom500(error):
    return 'my custom message'

@route("/")
def index():
    abort("Boo!")

run()