Error in cloudformation help command about aws-cli HOT 4 CLOSED

Looks like there are line breaks in the documentation XML... not sure exactly where it's coming from, but on inspection:

<member>
        <ResourceStatus>CREATE_COMPLETE</ResourceStatus>
        <LogicalResourceId>SampleApplication</LogicalResourceId>
        <LastUpdatedTimestamp>2011-06-21T20:26:12Z</LastUpdatedTimestamp>
        <PhysicalResourceId>MyStack-SampleApplication-1MKNASYR3RBQL</Phys
icalResourceId>
        <ResourceType>AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::Application</ResourceType>
      </member>

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Yes, I found two occurrences of '\n' characters embedded in PhysicalResourceId tags within the documentation strings. I manually removed those and the help command worked.

I could just check in my fixes but I think I better find the upstream source of the problem and fix it there. As a workaround, you could either edit the file in question or, better, you could create a directory, say ~/.aws_data and then create an aws directory in there and then copy the cloudformation.json file to ~/.aws_data/aws/cloudformation.json. Then:

$ export AWS_DATA_PATH=~/.aws_data

You can then edit that copy of the file and botocore should find it and use that version rather than the one in botocore's data directory.

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Got it - I'll fix locally for now but I agree that an upstream fix is probably best.

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This has been fixed in the 0.5.1 release of botocore which aws-cli should pick up automatically.

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