On Wed, 02 Oct 2013, Jeff Tratner wrote:

>    In pandas/io/tests/test_excel.py:

>  > @@ -350,7 +350,10 @@ def test_excelwriter_contextmanager(self):
>  >              with ExcelWriter(pth) as writer:
>  >                  self.frame.to_excel(writer, 'Data1')
>  >                  self.frame2.to_excel(writer, 'Data2')
>  > -
>  > +            # If above test passes with outdated xlrd, next test
>  > +            # does require fresh xlrd
>  > +            # http://nipy.bic.berkeley.edu/builders/pandas-py2.x-wheezy-sparc/builds/148/steps/shell_4/logs/stdio
>  > +            _skip_if_no_xlrd((0, 9))

>    Sorry to keep posting here, but the entire test suite fails if you try to
>    use 0.6.1 (after monkey-patching to remove all the checks for xlrd).
>    Please tell us what you mean here [1]@yarikoptic .

I just wanted to address failure as in
http://nipy.bic.berkeley.edu/builders/pandas-py2.x-wheezy-sparc/builds/148/steps/shell_4/logs/stdio
which happened somehow here after preceding test... thus I assumed that
it might work ok with 0.6.1 ... may be it doesn't -- didn't check.

so whatever works for you -- works for me ;-)

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