From c7d0f3cf88f22f2a868611d93d23c36881a28a58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gfyoung <gfyoung17@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:54:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] MAINT: Reset sys.path if docstrings import fails

Follow-up to gh-22413.
---
 pandas/tests/scripts/test_validate_docstrings.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pandas/tests/scripts/test_validate_docstrings.py b/pandas/tests/scripts/test_validate_docstrings.py
index cebcbf5a61465..29da40cd78d22 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/scripts/test_validate_docstrings.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/scripts/test_validate_docstrings.py
@@ -471,6 +471,9 @@ def import_scripts(self):
             from validate_docstrings import validate_one
             globals()[global_validate_one] = validate_one
         except ImportError:
+            # Remove addition to `sys.path`
+            sys.path.pop()
+
             # Import will fail if the pandas installation is not inplace.
             raise pytest.skip("pandas/scripts directory does not exist")