diff --git a/doc/source/release.rst b/doc/source/release.rst
index 37550f7ff5fb0..651c995e3e7bb 100644
--- a/doc/source/release.rst
+++ b/doc/source/release.rst
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ pandas 0.13
   - Fixed an issue where ``DataFrame.sum`` was slower than ``DataFrame.mean``
     for integer valued frames (:issue:`4365`)
   - ``read_html`` tests now work with Python 2.6 (:issue:`4351`)
+  - Fixed bug where ``network`` testing was throwing ``NameError`` because a
+    local variable was undefined (:issue:`4381`)
 
 pandas 0.12
 ===========
diff --git a/doc/source/v0.13.0.txt b/doc/source/v0.13.0.txt
index 148c2389ccdc7..72a175fd25d58 100644
--- a/doc/source/v0.13.0.txt
+++ b/doc/source/v0.13.0.txt
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ Bug Fixes
 
   - ``read_html`` tests now work with Python 2.6 (:issue:`4351`)
 
+  - Fixed bug where ``network`` testing was throwing ``NameError`` because a
+    local variable was undefined (:issue:`4381`)
+
 See the :ref:`full release notes
 <release>` or issue tracker
 on GitHub for a complete list.
diff --git a/pandas/util/testing.py b/pandas/util/testing.py
index d900c86ed11f9..7b2960ef498e1 100644
--- a/pandas/util/testing.py
+++ b/pandas/util/testing.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 from datetime import datetime
 from functools import wraps
-from contextlib import contextmanager, closing
+from contextlib import contextmanager
 from httplib import HTTPException
 from urllib2 import urlopen
 from distutils.version import LooseVersion
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@
 from pandas.tseries.index import DatetimeIndex
 from pandas.tseries.period import PeriodIndex
 
-from pandas.io.common import urlopen
-
 Index = index.Index
 MultiIndex = index.MultiIndex
 Series = series.Series
@@ -767,6 +765,8 @@ def network_wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
         if raise_on_error:
             return t(*args, **kwargs)
         else:
+            runs = 0
+
             for _ in range(num_runs):
                 try:
                     try:
@@ -781,6 +781,8 @@ def network_wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
                     else:
                        raise
 
+                runs += 1
+
     return network_wrapper