From 4e8f6dea3e8eb8686361451b5565dee3b2be0542 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dr-Irv <irv@princeton.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:02:14 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] DOC: Update contributing for test_fast, fix doc Windows
 build

---
 doc/make.py                 |  4 ++--
 doc/source/contributing.rst | 24 +++++++++++++++---------
 test_fast.bat               |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test_fast.bat

diff --git a/doc/make.py b/doc/make.py
index d46be2611ce3d..8a6d4e5df24f0 100755
--- a/doc/make.py
+++ b/doc/make.py
@@ -202,8 +202,8 @@ def html():
         raise SystemExit("Building HTML failed.")
     try:
         # remove stale file
-        os.system('rm source/html-styling.html')
-        os.system('cd build; rm -f html/pandas.zip;')
+        os.remove('source/html-styling.html')
+        os.remove('build/html/pandas.zip')
     except:
         pass
 
diff --git a/doc/source/contributing.rst b/doc/source/contributing.rst
index 2f838a3ab2386..d3af6ff954e6d 100644
--- a/doc/source/contributing.rst
+++ b/doc/source/contributing.rst
@@ -520,15 +520,6 @@ submitting code to run the check yourself on the diff::
 
    git diff master | flake8 --diff
 
-Furthermore, we've written a tool to check that your commits are PEP8 great, `pip install pep8radius
-<https://github.com/hayd/pep8radius>`_. Look at PEP8 fixes in your branch vs master with::
-
-    pep8radius master --diff
-
-and make these changes with::
-
-    pep8radius master --diff --in-place
-
 Backwards Compatibility
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -611,6 +602,21 @@ Or with one of the following constructs::
     pytest pandas/tests/[test-module].py::[TestClass]
     pytest pandas/tests/[test-module].py::[TestClass]::[test_method]
 
+Using `pytest-xdist <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-xdist>`_, one can 
+speed up local testing on multicore machines. Two scripts are provided to
+assist with this.  These scripts distribute testing across 4 threads.
+
+On Unix variants, one can type::
+
+    test_fast.sh
+    
+On Windows, one can type::
+
+    test_fast.bat
+    
+This can significantly reduce the time it takes to locally run tests before
+submitting a pull request.
+
 For more, see the `pytest <http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/>`_ documentation.
 
     .. versionadded:: 0.20.0
diff --git a/test_fast.bat b/test_fast.bat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..17dc54b580137
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_fast.bat
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+:: test on windows
+set PYTHONHASHSEED=314159265
+pytest --skip-slow --skip-network -m "not single" -n 4 pandas

From 4f02d36df9ef9a663b86ceb0880949d274e9c0ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dr-Irv <irv@princeton.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:27:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] add pip install for xdist

---
 doc/source/contributing.rst | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/source/contributing.rst b/doc/source/contributing.rst
index d3af6ff954e6d..83f99b4f01b26 100644
--- a/doc/source/contributing.rst
+++ b/doc/source/contributing.rst
@@ -603,8 +603,13 @@ Or with one of the following constructs::
     pytest pandas/tests/[test-module].py::[TestClass]::[test_method]
 
 Using `pytest-xdist <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-xdist>`_, one can 
-speed up local testing on multicore machines. Two scripts are provided to
-assist with this.  These scripts distribute testing across 4 threads.
+speed up local testing on multicore machines. To use this feature, you will
+need to install `pytest-xdist` via::
+
+    pip install pytest-xdist
+    
+Two scripts are provided to assist with this.  These scripts distribute 
+testing across 4 threads.
 
 On Unix variants, one can type::