CI: Adjust test to fix wheel builders (#50934)

* CI: Adjust test to fix wheel builders

* Update wheels.yml

* style

Author: lithomas1

.github/workflows/wheels.yml

@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ jobs:
           activate-environment: test
           channels: conda-forge, anaconda
           channel-priority: true
-          mamba-version: "*"
+          # mamba fails to solve, also we really don't need this since we're just installing python
+          # mamba-version: "*"
 
       - name: Test wheels (Windows 64-bit only)
         if: ${{ matrix.buildplat[1] == 'win_amd64' }}
@@ -154,7 +155,8 @@ jobs:
           python-version: '3.8'
           channels: conda-forge
           channel-priority: true
-          mamba-version: "*"
+          # mamba fails to solve, also we really don't need this since we're just installing python
+          # mamba-version: "*"
 
       - name: Build sdist
         run: |

pandas/tests/io/test_stata.py

@@ -1802,10 +1802,12 @@ def test_encoding_latin1_118(self, datapath):
 so the fallback encoding of latin-1 is being used.  This can happen when a file
 has been incorrectly encoded by Stata or some other software. You should verify
 the string values returned are correct."""
+        # Move path outside of read_stata, or else assert_produces_warning
+        # will block pytests skip mechanism from triggering (failing the test)
+        # if the path is not present
+        path = datapath("io", "data", "stata", "stata1_encoding_118.dta")
         with tm.assert_produces_warning(UnicodeWarning) as w:
-            encoded = read_stata(
-                datapath("io", "data", "stata", "stata1_encoding_118.dta")
-            )
+            encoded = read_stata(path)
             assert len(w) == 151
             assert w[0].message.args[0] == msg