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[Guidos Gorgeous Lasagna]: Tests Fail With Confusing pytest error if Student uses `input()`

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Since May 17, 2022.

  • #110 by @BethanyG — merged

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clicked "Run Tests" Got the following error:

We received the following error when we ran your code:
OSError: pytest: reading from stdin while output is captured! Consider using -s.

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