get_data_fred

[hidooki]

could you switch to calling urllib2.open (instead of urllib.open) in this function, so that it works seamlessly with http proxies?

[changhiskhan]

Would you be interested in making a pull request? We'd welcome any/all contributions

[paulproteus]

As context:

• Per http://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib2.html , urllib2 respects the http_proxy and HTTP_PROXY environment variables. Therefore, for people whose computers have those variables set, they typically want the Internet access to go via the proxy server, instead of directly to the Internet.
• The get_data_fred function is defined in pandas/io/data.py
• If you want to test this functionality, feel very free to ping me on the thread, and I will set you up with a proxy you can use to test this.

[paulproteus]

As far as I gather, adding an automated test for this would be fairly difficult, and unlikely to test exactly the right thing., so I believe it would not be required for this particular issue.

[jseabold]

It looks like this is resolved in master.