TST: Change method to make reporting more standard

Replaced a __init__ method with a setUp method;
Makes the XML generated by nose more standard.

TST: Move staticmethod to top-level
Makes the XML generated by nose more standard.

Author: TomAugspurger

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/'

pandas/tests/formats/test_format.py

@@ -3938,6 +3938,15 @@ def test_period(self):
         self.assertEqual(str(df), exp)
 
 
+def gen_series_formatting():
+    s1 = pd.Series(['a'] * 100)
+    s2 = pd.Series(['ab'] * 100)
+    s3 = pd.Series(['a', 'ab', 'abc', 'abcd', 'abcde', 'abcdef'])
+    s4 = s3[::-1]
+    test_sers = {'onel': s1, 'twol': s2, 'asc': s3, 'desc': s4}
+    return test_sers
+
+
 class TestSeriesFormatting(tm.TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
@@ -4335,15 +4344,6 @@ def test_consistent_format(self):
                '1.0000\n129    1.0000\ndtype: float64')
         self.assertEqual(res, exp)
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def gen_test_series():
-        s1 = pd.Series(['a'] * 100)
-        s2 = pd.Series(['ab'] * 100)
-        s3 = pd.Series(['a', 'ab', 'abc', 'abcd', 'abcde', 'abcdef'])
-        s4 = s3[::-1]
-        test_sers = {'onel': s1, 'twol': s2, 'asc': s3, 'desc': s4}
-        return test_sers
-
     def chck_ncols(self, s):
         with option_context("display.max_rows", 10):
             res = repr(s)
@@ -4354,7 +4354,7 @@ def chck_ncols(self, s):
         self.assertEqual(ncolsizes, 1)
 
     def test_format_explicit(self):
-        test_sers = self.gen_test_series()
+        test_sers = gen_series_formatting()
         with option_context("display.max_rows", 4):
             res = repr(test_sers['onel'])
             exp = '0     a\n1     a\n     ..\n98    a\n99    a\ndtype: object'
@@ -4373,7 +4373,7 @@ def test_format_explicit(self):
             self.assertEqual(exp, res)
 
     def test_ncols(self):
-        test_sers = self.gen_test_series()
+        test_sers = gen_series_formatting()
         for s in test_sers.values():
             self.chck_ncols(s)