From 8f8b71a938dbec2aba002a8a8ed8127976b896cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:17:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] ENH: @network decorator for tests

---
 pandas/util/testing.py | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pandas/util/testing.py b/pandas/util/testing.py
index 9552ed230d051..7a41b32baad0f 100644
--- a/pandas/util/testing.py
+++ b/pandas/util/testing.py
@@ -294,3 +294,40 @@ def skip_if_no_package(*args, **kwargs):
     package_check(exc_failed_import=SkipTest,
                   exc_failed_check=SkipTest,
                   *args, **kwargs)
+
+#
+# Additional tags decorators for nose
+#
+def network(t):
+    """
+    Label a test as requiring network connection.
+
+    In some cases it is not possible to assume network presence (e.g. Debian
+    build hosts).
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    t : callable
+        The test requiring network connectivity.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    t : callable
+        The decorated test `t`.
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    A test can be decorated as requiring network like this::
+
+      from pandas.util.testing import *
+
+      @network
+      def test_network(self):
+          print 'Fetch the stars from http://'
+
+    And use ``nosetests -a '!network'`` to exclude running tests requiring
+    network connectivity.
+    """
+
+    t.network = True
+    return t

From 80b9d84b8d213ad827538642c523257bec28412a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:18:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] TST: split test_url and make with @network portion
 requiring network access

---
 pandas/io/tests/test_parsers.py | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/io/tests/test_parsers.py b/pandas/io/tests/test_parsers.py
index 1c8b7754c500f..c6b096f502598 100644
--- a/pandas/io/tests/test_parsers.py
+++ b/pandas/io/tests/test_parsers.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 from pandas import DataFrame, Index, isnull
 from pandas.io.parsers import (read_csv, read_table, read_fwf,
                                ExcelFile, TextParser)
-from pandas.util.testing import assert_almost_equal, assert_frame_equal
+from pandas.util.testing import assert_almost_equal, assert_frame_equal, network
 import pandas._tseries as lib
 from pandas.util import py3compat
 
@@ -798,6 +798,7 @@ def test_na_value_dict(self):
         assert_frame_equal(df, expected)
 
     @slow
+    @network
     def test_url(self):
         # HTTP(S)
         url = 'https://raw.github.com/pydata/pandas/master/pandas/io/tests/salary.table'
@@ -806,10 +807,18 @@ def test_url(self):
         localtable = os.path.join(dirpath, 'salary.table')
         local_table = read_table(localtable)
         assert_frame_equal(url_table, local_table)
+        #TODO: ftp testing
+
+    @slow
+    def test_file(self):
         # FILE
+        dirpath = curpath()
+        localtable = os.path.join(dirpath, 'salary.table')
+        local_table = read_table(localtable)
+
         url_table = read_table('file://localhost/'+localtable)
         assert_frame_equal(url_table, local_table)
-        #TODO: ftp testing
+
 
 class TestParseSQL(unittest.TestCase):
 

From 1e486a58441a3ce300939fb320812578d7884555 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:23:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] ENH: skip test_file test with python 2.5 (not supported
 AFAIK)

---
 pandas/io/tests/test_parsers.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pandas/io/tests/test_parsers.py b/pandas/io/tests/test_parsers.py
index c6b096f502598..8437875b17060 100644
--- a/pandas/io/tests/test_parsers.py
+++ b/pandas/io/tests/test_parsers.py
@@ -812,6 +812,8 @@ def test_url(self):
     @slow
     def test_file(self):
         # FILE
+        if sys.version_info[:2] < (2, 6):
+            raise nose.SkipTest("file:// not supported with Python < 2.6")
         dirpath = curpath()
         localtable = os.path.join(dirpath, 'salary.table')
         local_table = read_table(localtable)