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Getting the following failures:
+ py.test-2.7 -v ipython_genutils/tests/
============================= test session starts ==============================
platform linux2 -- Python 2.7.10 -- py-1.4.29 -- pytest-2.7.2 -- /usr/bin/python2
rootdir: /builddir/build/BUILD/ipython_genutils-0.1.0, inifile: 
collecting ... collected 17 items

ipython_genutils/tests/test_importstring.py::test_import_plain PASSED
ipython_genutils/tests/test_importstring.py::test_import_nested PASSED
ipython_genutils/tests/test_importstring.py::test_import_raises PASSED
ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py::test_filefind PASSED
ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py::test_ensure_dir_exists FAILED
ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py::TestLinkOrCopy::test_link_successful FAILED
ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py::TestLinkOrCopy::test_link_into_dir FAILED
ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py::TestLinkOrCopy::test_target_exists FAILED
ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py::TestLinkOrCopy::test_no_link FAILED
ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py::TestLinkOrCopy::test_windows SKIPPED
ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py::TestLinkOrCopy::test_link_twice FAILED
ipython_genutils/tests/test_tempdir.py::test_named_file_in_temporary_directory PASSED
ipython_genutils/tests/test_tempdir.py::test_temporary_working_directory PASSED
ipython_genutils/tests/test_text.py::test_columnize PASSED
ipython_genutils/tests/test_text.py::test_columnize_random PASSED
ipython_genutils/tests/test_text.py::test_columnize_medium PASSED
ipython_genutils/tests/test_text.py::test_columnize_long PASSED

=================================== FAILURES ===================================
____________________________ test_ensure_dir_exists ____________________________

    def test_ensure_dir_exists():
        with TemporaryDirectory() as td:
            d = os.path.join(td, u'∂ir')
>           path.ensure_dir_exists(d) # create it

ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py:27: 
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ipython_genutils/path.py:165: in ensure_dir_exists
    if not os.path.exists(path):
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path = '/tmp/tmpu1R53C/\u2202ir'

    def exists(path):
        """Test whether a path exists.  Returns False for broken symbolic links"""
        try:
>           os.stat(path)
E           UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2202' in position 15: ordinal not in range(128)

/usr/lib64/python2.7/genericpath.py:26: UnicodeEncodeError
_____________________ TestLinkOrCopy.test_link_successful ______________________

args = (<ipython_genutils.tests.test_path.TestLinkOrCopy object at 0x7fe54b42e2d0>,)
kwargs = {}

    def skipper_func(*args, **kwargs):
        """Skipper for normal test functions."""
        if skip_val():
            raise nose.SkipTest(get_msg(f,msg))
        else:
>           return f(*args, **kwargs)

ipython_genutils/testing/decorators.py:186: 
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ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py:64: in test_link_successful
    dst = self.dst("target")
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self = <ipython_genutils.tests.test_path.TestLinkOrCopy object at 0x7fe54b42e2d0>
args = ('target',)

    def dst(self, *args):
>       return os.path.join(self.tempdir.name, *args)
E       AttributeError: 'TestLinkOrCopy' object has no attribute 'tempdir'

ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py:47: AttributeError
______________________ TestLinkOrCopy.test_link_into_dir _______________________

args = (<ipython_genutils.tests.test_path.TestLinkOrCopy object at 0x7fe54b473c10>,)
kwargs = {}

    def skipper_func(*args, **kwargs):
        """Skipper for normal test functions."""
        if skip_val():
            raise nose.SkipTest(get_msg(f,msg))
        else:
>           return f(*args, **kwargs)

ipython_genutils/testing/decorators.py:186: 
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ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py:70: in test_link_into_dir
    dst = self.dst("some_dir")
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self = <ipython_genutils.tests.test_path.TestLinkOrCopy object at 0x7fe54b473c10>
args = ('some_dir',)

    def dst(self, *args):
>       return os.path.join(self.tempdir.name, *args)
E       AttributeError: 'TestLinkOrCopy' object has no attribute 'tempdir'

ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py:47: AttributeError
______________________ TestLinkOrCopy.test_target_exists _______________________

args = (<ipython_genutils.tests.test_path.TestLinkOrCopy object at 0x7fe54b429090>,)
kwargs = {}

    def skipper_func(*args, **kwargs):
        """Skipper for normal test functions."""
        if skip_val():
            raise nose.SkipTest(get_msg(f,msg))
        else:
>           return f(*args, **kwargs)

ipython_genutils/testing/decorators.py:186: 
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ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py:78: in test_target_exists
    dst = self.dst("target")
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 

self = <ipython_genutils.tests.test_path.TestLinkOrCopy object at 0x7fe54b429090>
args = ('target',)

    def dst(self, *args):
>       return os.path.join(self.tempdir.name, *args)
E       AttributeError: 'TestLinkOrCopy' object has no attribute 'tempdir'

ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py:47: AttributeError
_________________________ TestLinkOrCopy.test_no_link __________________________

args = (<ipython_genutils.tests.test_path.TestLinkOrCopy object at 0x7fe54b42e390>,)
kwargs = {}

    def skipper_func(*args, **kwargs):
        """Skipper for normal test functions."""
        if skip_val():
            raise nose.SkipTest(get_msg(f,msg))
        else:
>           return f(*args, **kwargs)

ipython_genutils/testing/decorators.py:186:
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ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py:88: in test_no_link
    dst = self.dst("target")
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self = <ipython_genutils.tests.test_path.TestLinkOrCopy object at 0x7fe54b42e390>
args = ('target',)

    def dst(self, *args):
>       return os.path.join(self.tempdir.name, *args)
E       AttributeError: 'TestLinkOrCopy' object has no attribute 'tempdir'

ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py:47: AttributeError
________________________ TestLinkOrCopy.test_link_twice ________________________

self = <ipython_genutils.tests.test_path.TestLinkOrCopy object at 0x7fe54b3d1190>

    def test_link_twice(self):
        # Linking the same file twice shouldn't leave duplicates around.
        # See https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/6450
>       dst = self.dst('target')

ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py:104:
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self = <ipython_genutils.tests.test_path.TestLinkOrCopy object at 0x7fe54b3d1190>
args = ('target',)

    def dst(self, *args):
>       return os.path.join(self.tempdir.name, *args)
E       AttributeError: 'TestLinkOrCopy' object has no attribute 'tempdir'

ipython_genutils/tests/test_path.py:47: AttributeError
================ 6 failed, 10 passed, 1 skipped in 0.13 seconds ================
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