Revert last commit.

"ENH: Improved traceback reporting from server. "

Strangely, the reporting by this is not as good as my hand-rolled code.

This reverts commit bc343c26cf3aac699c08129034b41317bac16f76.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/python_server.py b/python_server.py
index b90655b..1670f90 100755
--- a/python_server.py
+++ b/python_server.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 and returns the output.  It *should* be run as root and will run as the user 
 'nobody' so as to minimize any damange by errant code.
 """
+import sys
 import traceback
 from SimpleXMLRPCServer import SimpleXMLRPCServer
 import pwd
@@ -31,18 +32,28 @@ def run_code(answer, test_code, in_dir=None):
     if in_dir is not None and isdir(in_dir):
         os.chdir(in_dir)
         
+    success = False
+    tb = None
     try:
         submitted = compile(answer, '<string>', mode='exec')
         g = {}
         exec submitted in g
         _tests = compile(test_code, '<string>', mode='exec')
         exec _tests in g
+    except AssertionError:
+        type, value, tb = sys.exc_info()
+        info = traceback.extract_tb(tb)
+        fname, lineno, func, text = info[-1]
+        text = str(test_code).splitlines()[lineno-1]
+        err = "{0} {1} in: {2}".format(type.__name__, str(value), text)
     except:
-        success = False
-        err = traceback.format_exc(limit=1)
+        type, value = sys.exc_info()[:2]
+        err = "Error: {0}".format(repr(value))
     else:
         success = True
         err = 'Correct answer'
+    finally:
+        del tb
 
     return success, err