edx/edx-platform — pull request #526 by dmitchell (2013-07-30 16:13:05+00:00)
Title: Yet another Course Info bug

Was silently failing if the course_info data in the db was malformed thus preventing Studio update from parsing it.

https://edx-wiki.atlassian.net/browse/STUD-544

@cahrens @singingwolfboy please review (line 80ff is just a change of indentation)