pydata/pandas — pull request #3517 by lodagro (2013-05-02 20:08:06+00:00)
Title: TST: skip tests needing xlrd

xlrd version i have installed is 0.8.0, several of the tests in io.tests.test_excel failed, due to needing at least version > 0.9. This PR fixes this, those tests will be skipped if xlrd is not installed or if the version is old.