Intermittent errors in test_dict_complex, test_dict_numpy_complex

[matthew-brett]

Another annoying one, this time with more than one failure, but again, fail then not fail on a repeat run of the same tests.

Fails here:

A) https://travis-ci.org/matthew-brett/scipy-stack-osx-testing/jobs/26434163
B) http://nipy.bic.berkeley.edu/builders/scipy-stack-3.4.0-wheel-requires/builds/20/steps/shell_8/logs/stdio

Message:

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FAIL: test_dict_complex (pandas.io.tests.test_packers.TestNumpy)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/travis/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pandas/io/tests/test_packers.py", line 153, in test_dict_complex
    all(map(lambda x, y: type(x) == type(y), x.values(), x_rec.values())))
AssertionError: False is not true
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FAIL: test_dict_numpy_complex (pandas.io.tests.test_packers.TestNumpy)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/travis/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pandas/io/tests/test_packers.py", line 165, in test_dict_numpy_complex
    all(map(lambda x, y: type(x) == type(y), x.values(), x_rec.values())))
AssertionError: False is not true

Fail A is on travis OSX 10.9 virtual machine running macports Python 3.4.1 in a virtualenv. Previous apparently identical run does not have this failure: https://travis-ci.org/matthew-brett/scipy-stack-osx-testing/jobs/26429175

Fail B is on an old clean 10.6 machine running Python.org 3.4.0. Subsequent identical run does not fail: http://nipy.bic.berkeley.edu/builders/scipy-stack-3.4.0-wheel-requires/builds/21

[jreback]

yeah these I have seen - can never repro when I need to -

[matthew-brett]

Maybe worth a debug print or something to have more output to investigate?

[jreback]

only ever seen this on 3.4 and only rarely
if u have a chance to figure out the issue would be gr!

[matthew-brett]

OK - will investigate further. Failed on 2 of 40 test runs nosetests pandas.io.tests.test_packers.TestNumpy so shouldn't be too hard to track down.