Why does Django use the 'status' parameter instead of 'status_code' for HttpResponse?

Hello everyone!

I noticed a discrepancy in Django: the documentation references the attribute status_code for HttpResponse, but when building a response, you must use the parameter 'status'.

For example, the following code doesn't work:

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# this doesn't work
def click(request):
    return HttpResponse("Here's the text of the web page.", status_code = 404)

However, this version works as expected:

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# But this works!
def click(request):
    return HttpResponse("Here's the text of the web page.", status = 404)

Since the constructor in the source code (see here) accepts 'status', why does the documentation refer to 'status_code'? Any clarification would be appreciated.