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Test: Tests break when pycountries updates its list of countries

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#37,611 opened on Nov 5, 2025

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Everytime pycountries updates the list of countries, edx-platform tests fail because we have a copy of the list from that library as a set of test constants: https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/blob/master/openedx/core/djangoapps/user_api/tests/test_constants.py

This is super brittle and it's unclear what value it's providing. Do we need these tests? What are they doing? Can we test what we care about in a less brittle way?

Investigate the tests that use the SORTED_COUNTRIES constant and where it's used and see if we can get rid of it.

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Investigate the tests that use the SORTED COUNTRIES constant, understand what they are testing, and propose a way to test the same functionality without relying on a copy of the pycountries list.
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Pythonpytest
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