EdX Errors with Python Newlines are Problematic

[ChristopherChudzicki]

Of course Python newline (\n) doesn't display correctly if used in edx XML. But if you use one in an error message, you get a traceback, too!

def cfn(e, a):
    raise Exception("A \n B")
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</script>

whereas with HTML newlines only:

def cfn(e, a):
    raise Exception("A <br/> B")
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</script>

So ... that's weird.

Not a big problem for us, easily resolved by editing AbstractGrader's __call__ method.

[jolyonb]

I could've sworn that we were doing that already, no?

[ChristopherChudzicki]

I thought so too, but we were only doing it in 'msg' and 'overall_message', NOT errors.

[jolyonb]

Fair enough. I like issues like this that have a one-liner fix!

[jolyonb]

Hmm. Apparently if you put "Resolves #issuenumber" in the PR description, when merged, it closes the issue automatically. But not if you put it in comments. Ah well.