TST: Use pytest

.gitignore

@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ dist
 **/wheelhouse/*
 # coverage
 .coverage
+coverage.xml
+coverage_html_report
 
 # OS generated files #
 ######################

.travis.yml

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ matrix:
       env:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=3.5
         - JOB_NAME: "35_osx"
-        - NOSE_ARGS="not slow and not network and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--skip-slow --skip-network"
         - BUILD_TYPE=conda
         - JOB_TAG=_OSX
         - TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION=3.5
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ matrix:
       env:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=2.7
         - JOB_NAME: "27_slow_nnet_LOCALE"
-        - NOSE_ARGS="slow and not network and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--only-slow --skip-network"
         - LOCALE_OVERRIDE="zh_CN.UTF-8"
         - FULL_DEPS=true
         - JOB_TAG=_LOCALE
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ matrix:
       env:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=2.7
         - JOB_NAME: "27_nslow"
-        - NOSE_ARGS="not slow and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--skip-slow"
         - FULL_DEPS=true
         - CLIPBOARD_GUI=gtk2
         - LINT=true
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ matrix:
       env:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=3.5
         - JOB_NAME: "35_nslow"
-        - NOSE_ARGS="not slow and not network and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--skip-slow --skip-network"
         - FULL_DEPS=true
         - CLIPBOARD=xsel
         - COVERAGE=true
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ matrix:
       env:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=3.6
         - JOB_NAME: "36"
-        - NOSE_ARGS="not slow and not network and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--skip-slow --skip-network"
         - PANDAS_TESTING_MODE="deprecate"
       addons:
         apt:
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ matrix:
       env:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=2.7
         - JOB_NAME: "27_nslow_nnet_COMPAT"
-        - NOSE_ARGS="not slow and not network and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--skip-slow --skip-network"
         - LOCALE_OVERRIDE="it_IT.UTF-8"
         - INSTALL_TEST=true
         - JOB_TAG=_COMPAT
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ matrix:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=2.7
         - JOB_NAME: "27_slow"
         - JOB_TAG=_SLOW
-        - NOSE_ARGS="slow and not network and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--only-slow --skip-network"
         - FULL_DEPS=true
         - CACHE_NAME="27_slow"
         - USE_CACHE=true
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ matrix:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=2.7
         - JOB_NAME: "27_build_test_conda"
         - JOB_TAG=_BUILD_TEST
-        - NOSE_ARGS="not slow and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--skip-slow"
         - FULL_DEPS=true
         - BUILD_TEST=true
         - CACHE_NAME="27_build_test_conda"
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ matrix:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=3.4
         - JOB_NAME: "34_nslow"
         - LOCALE_OVERRIDE="zh_CN.UTF-8"
-        - NOSE_ARGS="not slow and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--skip-slow"
         - FULL_DEPS=true
         - CLIPBOARD=xsel
         - CACHE_NAME="34_nslow"
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ matrix:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=3.4
         - JOB_NAME: "34_slow"
         - JOB_TAG=_SLOW
-        - NOSE_ARGS="slow and not network and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--only-slow --skip-network"
         - FULL_DEPS=true
         - CLIPBOARD=xsel
         - CACHE_NAME="34_slow"
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ matrix:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=3.5
         - JOB_NAME: "35_numpy_dev"
         - JOB_TAG=_NUMPY_DEV
-        - NOSE_ARGS="not slow and not network and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--skip-slow --skip-network"
         - PANDAS_TESTING_MODE="deprecate"
         - CACHE_NAME="35_numpy_dev"
         - USE_CACHE=true
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ matrix:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=3.5
         - JOB_NAME: "35_ascii"
         - JOB_TAG=_ASCII
-        - NOSE_ARGS="not slow and not network and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--skip-slow --skip-network"
         - LOCALE_OVERRIDE="C"
         - CACHE_NAME="35_ascii"
         - USE_CACHE=true
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ matrix:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=2.7
         - JOB_NAME: "27_slow"
         - JOB_TAG=_SLOW
-        - NOSE_ARGS="slow and not network and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--only-slow --skip-network"
         - FULL_DEPS=true
         - CACHE_NAME="27_slow"
         - USE_CACHE=true
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ matrix:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=3.4
         - JOB_NAME: "34_slow"
         - JOB_TAG=_SLOW
-        - NOSE_ARGS="slow and not network and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--only-slow --skip-network"
         - FULL_DEPS=true
         - CLIPBOARD=xsel
         - CACHE_NAME="34_slow"
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ matrix:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=2.7
         - JOB_NAME: "27_build_test_conda"
         - JOB_TAG=_BUILD_TEST
-        - NOSE_ARGS="not slow and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--skip-slow"
         - FULL_DEPS=true
         - BUILD_TEST=true
         - CACHE_NAME="27_build_test_conda"
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ matrix:
           - PYTHON_VERSION=3.4
           - JOB_NAME: "34_nslow"
           - LOCALE_OVERRIDE="zh_CN.UTF-8"
-          - NOSE_ARGS="not slow and not disabled"
+          - TEST_ARGS="--skip-slow"
           - FULL_DEPS=true
           - CLIPBOARD=xsel
           - CACHE_NAME="34_nslow"
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ matrix:
           - PYTHON_VERSION=3.5
           - JOB_NAME: "35_numpy_dev"
           - JOB_TAG=_NUMPY_DEV
-          - NOSE_ARGS="not slow and not network and not disabled"
+          - TEST_ARGS="--skip-slow --skip-network"
           - PANDAS_TESTING_MODE="deprecate"
           - CACHE_NAME="35_numpy_dev"
           - USE_CACHE=true
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ matrix:
         env:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=2.7
         - JOB_NAME: "27_nslow_nnet_COMPAT"
-        - NOSE_ARGS="not slow and not network and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--skip-slow --skip-network"
         - LOCALE_OVERRIDE="it_IT.UTF-8"
         - INSTALL_TEST=true
         - JOB_TAG=_COMPAT
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ matrix:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=3.5
         - JOB_NAME: "35_ascii"
         - JOB_TAG=_ASCII
-        - NOSE_ARGS="not slow and not network and not disabled"
+        - TEST_ARGS="--skip-slow --skip-network"
         - LOCALE_OVERRIDE="C"
         - CACHE_NAME="35_ascii"
         - USE_CACHE=true

appveyor.yml

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ environment:
     # /E:ON and /V:ON options are not enabled in the batch script intepreter
     # See: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13751649/163740
     CMD_IN_ENV: "cmd /E:ON /V:ON /C .\\ci\\run_with_env.cmd"
+    clone_folder: C:\projects\pandas
 
   matrix:
 
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ install:
   - cmd: '%CMD_IN_ENV% conda build ci\appveyor.recipe -q'
 
   # create our env
-  - cmd: conda create -q -n pandas python=%PYTHON_VERSION% nose
+  - cmd: conda create -q -n pandas python=%PYTHON_VERSION% nose pytest
   - cmd: activate pandas
   - SET REQ=ci\requirements-%PYTHON_VERSION%-%PYTHON_ARCH%.run
   - cmd: echo "installing requirements from %REQ%"
@@ -93,7 +94,8 @@ install:
 
 test_script:
   # tests
-  - cd \
   - cmd: activate pandas
   - cmd: conda list
-  - cmd: nosetests --exe -A "not slow and not network and not disabled" pandas
+  - cmd: cd \
+  - cmd: python -c "import pandas; pandas.test(['--skip-slow', '--skip-network'])"
+

ci/install_test.sh

@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ if [ "$INSTALL_TEST" ]; then
     conda uninstall cython || exit 1
     python "$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR"/setup.py sdist --formats=zip,gztar || exit 1
     pip install "$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR"/dist/*tar.gz || exit 1
-    nosetests --exe -A "$NOSE_ARGS" pandas/tests/test_series.py --with-xunit --xunit-file=/tmp/nosetests_install.xml
+    # nosetests --exe -A "$TEST_ARGS" pandas/tests/test_series.py --with-xunit --xunit-file=/tmp/nosetests_install.xml
+    pytest pandas/tests/test_series.py --junitxml=/tmp/pytest_install.xml
 else
     echo "Skipping installation test."
 fi

ci/install_travis.sh

@@ -83,20 +83,17 @@ else
 
     # Useful for debugging any issues with conda
     conda info -a || exit 1
+
 fi
 
 # may have installation instructions for this build
 INSTALL="ci/install-${PYTHON_VERSION}${JOB_TAG}.sh"
 if [ -e ${INSTALL} ]; then
     time bash $INSTALL || exit 1
 else
-
     # create new env
-    time conda create -n pandas python=$PYTHON_VERSION nose || exit 1
+    time conda create -n pandas python=$PYTHON_VERSION nose pytest || exit 1
 
-    if [ "$COVERAGE" ]; then
-        pip install coverage
-    fi
     if [ "$LINT" ]; then
         conda install flake8
         pip install cpplint
@@ -119,6 +116,10 @@ fi
 
 source activate pandas
 
+if [ "$COVERAGE" ]; then
+    pip install coverage pytest-cov
+fi
+
 if [ "$BUILD_TEST" ]; then
 
     # build testing

ci/requirements_all.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 nose
+pytest
+pytest-cov
 flake8
 sphinx
 ipython

ci/requirements_dev.txt

@@ -3,4 +3,6 @@ pytz
 numpy
 cython
 nose
+pytest
+pytest-cov
 flake8

ci/script.sh

@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@ fi
 if [ "$BUILD_TEST" ]; then
     echo "We are not running nosetests as this is simply a build test."
 elif [ "$COVERAGE" ]; then
-    echo nosetests --exe -A "$NOSE_ARGS" pandas --with-coverage --with-xunit --xunit-file=/tmp/nosetests.xml
-    nosetests --exe -A "$NOSE_ARGS" pandas --with-coverage --cover-package=pandas --cover-tests --with-xunit --xunit-file=/tmp/nosetests.xml
+    echo pytest -s --cov=pandas --cov-report xml:/tmp/nosetests.xml $TEST_ARGS pandas
+    pytest -s --cov=pandas --cov-report xml:/tmp/nosetests.xml $TEST_ARGS pandas
 else
-    echo nosetests --exe -A "$NOSE_ARGS" pandas --doctest-tests --with-xunit --xunit-file=/tmp/nosetests.xml
-    nosetests --exe -A "$NOSE_ARGS" pandas --doctest-tests --with-xunit --xunit-file=/tmp/nosetests.xml
+    echo pytest $TEST_ARGS pandas
+    pytest $TEST_ARGS pandas # TODO: doctest
 fi
 
 RET="$?"

doc/source/contributing.rst

@@ -552,8 +552,8 @@ use cases and writing corresponding tests.
 Adding tests is one of the most common requests after code is pushed to *pandas*.  Therefore,
 it is worth getting in the habit of writing tests ahead of time so this is never an issue.
 
-Like many packages, *pandas* uses the `Nose testing system
-<https://nose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html>`_ and the convenient
+Like many packages, *pandas* uses `pytest
+<http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/>`_ and the convenient
 extensions in `numpy.testing
 <http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/routines.testing.html>`_.
 
@@ -595,17 +595,25 @@ Running the test suite
 The tests can then be run directly inside your Git clone (without having to
 install *pandas*) by typing::
 
-    nosetests pandas
+    pytest pandas
 
 The tests suite is exhaustive and takes around 20 minutes to run.  Often it is
 worth running only a subset of tests first around your changes before running the
-entire suite.  This is done using one of the following constructs::
+entire suite.
 
-    nosetests pandas/tests/[test-module].py
-    nosetests pandas/tests/[test-module].py:[TestClass]
-    nosetests pandas/tests/[test-module].py:[TestClass].[test_method]
+The easiest way to do this is with::
 
-  .. versionadded:: 0.18.0
+    pytest pandas/path/to/test.py -k regex_matching_test_name
+
+Or with one of the following constructs::
+
+    pytest pandas/tests/[test-module].py
+    pytest pandas/tests/[test-module].py::[TestClass]
+    pytest pandas/tests/[test-module].py::[TestClass]::[test_method]
+
+For more, see the `pytest<http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/>`_ documentation.
+
+    .. versionadded:: 0.18.0
 
 Furthermore one can run
 

doc/source/install.rst

@@ -188,8 +188,8 @@ Running the test suite
 pandas is equipped with an exhaustive set of unit tests covering about 97% of
 the codebase as of this writing. To run it on your machine to verify that
 everything is working (and you have all of the dependencies, soft and hard,
-installed), make sure you have `nose
-<https://nose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`__ and run:
+installed), make sure you have `pytest
+<http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/>`__ and run:
 
 ::
 

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt

@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ Highlights include:
 
 - Building pandas for development now requires ``cython >= 0.23`` (:issue:`14831`)
 - The ``.ix`` indexer has been deprecated, see :ref:`here <whatsnew_0200.api_breaking.deprecate_ix>`
+- Switched the test framework to `pytest`_ (:issue:`13097`)
+
+.. _pytest: http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/
 
 Check the :ref:`API Changes <whatsnew_0200.api_breaking>` and :ref:`deprecations <whatsnew_0200.deprecations>` before updating.
 

pandas/__init__.py

@@ -56,11 +56,7 @@
 
 from pandas.io.api import *
 
-# define the testing framework
-import pandas.util.testing
-from pandas.util.nosetester import NoseTester
-test = NoseTester().test
-del NoseTester
+from pandas.util._tester import test
 
 # use the closest tagged version if possible
 from ._version import get_versions

pandas/api/tests/test_api.py

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ class TestPDApi(Base, tm.TestCase):
 
     # these are optionally imported based on testing
     # & need to be ignored
-    ignored = ['tests', 'locale']
+    ignored = ['tests', 'locale', 'conftest']
 
     # top-level sub-packages
     lib = ['api', 'compat', 'computation', 'core',

pandas/conftest.py

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import pytest
+
+
+def pytest_addoption(parser):
+    parser.addoption("--skip-slow", action="store_true",
+                     help="skip slow tests")
+    parser.addoption("--skip-network", action="store_true",
+                     help="run network tests")
+    parser.addoption("--only-slow", action="store_true",
+                     help="run only slow tests")
+
+
+def pytest_runtest_setup(item):
+    if 'slow' in item.keywords and item.config.getoption("--skip-slow"):
+        pytest.skip("skipping due to --skip-slow")
+
+    if 'slow' not in item.keywords and item.config.getoption("--only-slow"):
+        pytest.skip("skipping due to --only-slow")
+
+    if 'skip' in item.keywords and item.config.getoption("--skip-network"):
+        pytest.skip("skipping due to --skip-network")

pandas/io/tests/parser/test_network.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class TestCompressedUrl(object):
         'xz': '.xz',
     }
 
-    def __init__(self):
+    def setup(self):
         path = os.path.join(tm.get_data_path(), 'salaries.csv')
         self.local_table = read_table(path)
         self.base_url = ('https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/raw/master/'