From 5e6db32e3989b71597a88763467c5c2c96353123 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: y-p <yoval@gmx.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 00:00:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] TST: DF should not error when 'columns' is a list that
 contains dupes

test_getitem_list_duplicates() shows that the same works for numpy arrays.
---
 pandas/tests/test_frame.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pandas/tests/test_frame.py b/pandas/tests/test_frame.py
index 45ec1fa427410..51a4183720f43 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/test_frame.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/test_frame.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # pylint: disable-msg=W0612,E1101
+from __future__ import with_statement
 from copy import deepcopy
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from StringIO import StringIO
@@ -1107,6 +1108,9 @@ def test_getitem_list_duplicates(self):
         expected = df.ix[:, 2:]
         assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
+    def test_dupes_in_col_list (self):
+        DataFrame([[8,5]],columns=["a","a"])
+
     def test_get_value(self):
         for idx in self.frame.index:
             for col in self.frame.columns: