Regression: read_csv call with skiprows fails on pandas versions 0.15.2, 0.16.0, works on 0.15.0 and 0.15.1

[lexual]

# passes for 0.15.0
# passes for 0.15.1
# fails for 0.15.2
# fails for 0.16.0
# This is for a "csv" file where there are a number of initial rows to be skipped at file start.
import pandas as pd
import urllib

test_data_url = 'http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDV60901/IDV60901.95936.axf'
test_file = 'test.csv'

ROWS_TO_SKIP_AT_THE_START = 19


def main():
    urllib.urlretrieve(test_data_url, test_file)
    print('pandas version: {}'.format(pd.version.version))
    data = pd.read_csv(test_file, skiprows=ROWS_TO_SKIP_AT_THE_START)
    assert len(data) == 145
    assert 'sort_order' in data
    print('file successfully read by read_csv()')



if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

[lexual]

Version 0.16.0 gives this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 25, in <module>
    main()
  File "test.py", line 17, in main
    data = pd.read_csv(test_file, skiprows=ROWS_TO_SKIP_AT_THE_START)
  File "/Users/user_x/miniconda3/envs/pandas_bug/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py", line 470, in parser_f
    return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
  File "/Users/user_x/miniconda3/envs/pandas_bug/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py", line 246, in _read
    parser = TextFileReader(filepath_or_buffer, **kwds)
  File "/Users/user_x/miniconda3/envs/pandas_bug/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py", line 562, in __init__
    self._make_engine(self.engine)
  File "/Users/user_x/miniconda3/envs/pandas_bug/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py", line 699, in _make_engine
    self._engine = CParserWrapper(self.f, **self.options)
  File "/Users/user_x/miniconda3/envs/pandas_bug/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py", line 1066, in __init__
    self._reader = _parser.TextReader(src, **kwds)
  File "pandas/parser.pyx", line 512, in pandas.parser.TextReader.__cinit__ (pandas/parser.c:4804)
ValueError: No columns to parse from file

[lexual]

$ git bisect bad
6bf83c5dc575f52c84783d6bd6c4b9713b6201ab is the first bad commit
commit 6bf83c5dc575f52c84783d6bd6c4b9713b6201ab
Author: Scott E Lasley <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Nov 7 15:31:53 2014 -0500

    BUG CSV: fix problem with trailing whitespace in skipped rows, issues 8661, 8679
    ENH CSV: Reduce memory usage when skiprows is an integer in read_csv, issue 8681

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[lexual]

6bf83c5

[lexual]

Yep my testcase now passes with latest HEAD

[jreback]

closed by #9834