TST: run clipboard tests explicitly

doc/source/release.rst

@@ -180,6 +180,8 @@ Bug Fixes
   - Bug in ``nanops.var`` with ``ddof=1`` and 1 elements would sometimes return ``inf``
     rather than ``nan`` on some platforms (:issue:`6136`)
   - Bug in Series and DataFrame bar plots ignoring the ``use_index`` keyword (:issue:`6209`)
+  - Disabled clipboard tests until release time (run locally with ``nosetests
+    -A disabled`` (:issue:`6048`).
 
 pandas 0.13.0
 -------------

pandas/io/tests/test_clipboard.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 from pandas import read_clipboard
 from pandas import get_option
 from pandas.util import testing as tm
-from pandas.util.testing import makeCustomDataframe as mkdf
+from pandas.util.testing import makeCustomDataframe as mkdf, disabled
 
 
 try:
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
     raise nose.SkipTest("no clipboard found")
 
 
+@disabled
 class TestClipboard(tm.TestCase):
     @classmethod
     def setUpClass(cls):
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ def setUpClass(cls):
         max_rows = get_option('display.max_rows')
         cls.data['longdf'] = mkdf(max_rows+1, 3, data_gen_f=lambda *args: randint(2),
                                   c_idx_type='s', r_idx_type='i',
-                                  c_idx_names=[None], r_idx_names=[None])  
+                                  c_idx_names=[None], r_idx_names=[None])
         cls.data_types = list(cls.data.keys())
 
     @classmethod

pandas/util/testing.py

@@ -996,7 +996,7 @@ def dec(f):
     60,  # urllib.error.URLError: [Errno 60] Connection timed out
     )
 
-# Both of the above shouldn't mask reasl issues such as 404's
+# Both of the above shouldn't mask real issues such as 404's
 # or refused connections (changed DNS).
 # But some tests (test_data yahoo) contact incredibly flakey
 # servers.
@@ -1396,3 +1396,8 @@ def skip_if_no_ne(engine='numexpr'):
         if ne.__version__ < LooseVersion('2.0'):
             raise nose.SkipTest("numexpr version too low: "
                                 "%s" % ne.__version__)
+
+
+def disabled(t):
+    t.disabled = True
+    return t