Github user pwendell commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/866#issuecomment-45578368
@mateiz @laserson This patched introduced a change which breaks the unit
tests on Python 2.6. The `skipIf` feature is not supported in Python 2.7
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