BUG: fix for GH9010
Superseded by #9358 

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This is an update of PR #9024.

closes #9010 

@PollyP can you rebase, and update according to comments by @shoyer 
 OK, will do by Saturday at the latest.

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> https://github.com/pydata/pandas/pull/9198#issuecomment-70425684.
 Looks like dstephens99 went ahead and fixed this. 
 yes, @dstephens99 fixed it in pandas-datareader, but until we decide what exactly to do with the code in pandas, this can maybe still be merged in pandas? (@jreback)

(only reopened to be sure we decide on this, we can just close it again if we are not going to merge this)
 see comments here: https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/issues/15
 @jorisvandenbossche are we merging this?
 I think we should close this in favor of #9358 (which brings the changes made in pandas-datareader to back to pandas, including this)

@PollyP Thanks for your work on this! If you want to do more fixes in the future, you can submit them directly to pandas-datareader.
