Skip tests on network error
closing in favor of #3914
 @jreback while I understand that the decorator is a better approach, this pull request also split up tests into smaller functions, which make identifying errors easier ... I think this is a small value add regardless.
 @gliptak np.....

cc @jtratner

shall we merge this first? then #3914 which might need a rebase after?
 I'm going to be home and able to check in about 30mins, do you mind waiting
so I can check? I think my PR covers nearly all of this already (including
switching out imports etc)
On Jun 18, 2013 7:38 PM, "jreback" notifications@github.com wrote:

> @gliptak https://github.com/gliptak np.....
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> cc @jtratner https://github.com/jtratner
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> shall we merge this first? then #3914https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/3914which might need a rebase after?
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 In particular - the network and with connectivity decorators make it
unnecessary to catch IOErrors in test.
On Jun 18, 2013 7:40 PM, "Jeffrey Tratner" jeffrey.tratner@gmail.com
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> I'm going to be home and able to check in about 30mins, do you mind
> waiting so I can check? I think my PR covers nearly all of this already
> (including switching out imports etc)
> On Jun 18, 2013 7:38 PM, "jreback" notifications@github.com wrote:
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> > @gliptak https://github.com/gliptak np.....
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> > cc @jtratner https://github.com/jtratner
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> > shall we merge this first? then #3914https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/3914which might need a rebase after?
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 also pls look at #3916, prob related
 Uh but you shouldn't merge my other PR. Have to make one edit like I said
earlier.
On Jun 18, 2013 7:41 PM, "Jeffrey Tratner" jtratner@gmail.com wrote:

> In particular - the network and with connectivity decorators make it
> unnecessary to catch IOErrors in test.
> On Jun 18, 2013 7:40 PM, "Jeffrey Tratner" jeffrey.tratner@gmail.com
> wrote:
> 
> > I'm going to be home and able to check in about 30mins, do you mind
> > waiting so I can check? I think my PR covers nearly all of this already
> > (including switching out imports etc)
> > On Jun 18, 2013 7:38 PM, "jreback" notifications@github.com wrote:
> > 
> > > @gliptak https://github.com/gliptak np.....
> > > 
> > > cc @jtratner https://github.com/jtratner
> > > 
> > > shall we merge this first? then #3914https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/3914which might need a rebase after?
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 no merging until positive confirmation from both of you (kind of like it takes 2 keys to blow up the world)
 @jreback Maybe you can merge this pull request (as it "compiles" alone), than retrofit #3914 to HEAD? There are also `@network` functions in #3822.
 The problem is that all of the `try: catch URLErrror...check google.com` idiom is handled transparently by the new network and with_connectivity_check decorators. So if we merge the other commit first, you can replace all of the try/catch statements with a:

`@with_connectivity_check("http://www.google.com")`

at the top.
 @jtratner Jeff, do you see this pull request working as is (without implementing your improvements)?
 @gliptak one of us will have to edit a pull request to make the final merge happen, haha. The only thing is that you have more domain experience with this module than I do, so it would be great if you could decide which tests should check connectivity ahead of time  (`@with_check_connectivity(check_before_test=True)`/afterwards(`@with_check_connectivity`) and which tests should just ignore connectivity errors altogether (`@network`)). I tried to do this, but it was rather arbitrary.
 @jreback why don't you just merge this first and then I'll edit the other one.
 @gliptak thank you
 @jreback no problem
@jtratner please let me know if you are expecting changes from me
 It's all good, ended up being a breeze to merge.
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> @jreback https://github.com/jreback no problem
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