AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'open_file'

[yarikoptic]

======================================================================
ERROR: test_frame_select_complex2 (pandas.io.tests.test_pytables.TestHDFStore)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/buildd/pandas-0.15.0/debian/tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pandas/io/tests/test_pytables.py", line 3686, in test_frame_select_complex2
    parms.to_hdf(pp,'df',mode='w',format='table',data_columns=['A'])
  File "/tmp/buildd/pandas-0.15.0/debian/tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pandas/core/generic.py", line 896, in to_hdf
    return pytables.to_hdf(path_or_buf, key, self, **kwargs)
  File "/tmp/buildd/pandas-0.15.0/debian/tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pandas/io/pytables.py", line 293, in to_hdf
    complib=complib) as store:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 17, in __enter__
    return self.gen.next()
  File "/tmp/buildd/pandas-0.15.0/debian/tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pandas/io/pytables.py", line 274, in get_store
    store = HDFStore(path, **kwargs)
  File "/tmp/buildd/pandas-0.15.0/debian/tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pandas/io/pytables.py", line 423, in __init__
    self.open(mode=mode, **kwargs)
  File "/tmp/buildd/pandas-0.15.0/debian/tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pandas/io/pytables.py", line 553, in open
    self._handle = tables.open_file(self._path, self._mode, **kwargs)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'open_file'

on the same old ubuntu 13.10

INSTALLED VERSIONS
------------------
commit: None
python: 2.7.5.final.0
python-bits: 64
OS: Linux
OS-release: 3.2.0-4-amd64
machine: x86_64
processor: x86_64
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: C
LANG: C

pandas: 0.15.0
nose: 1.3.0
Cython: 0.19
numpy: 1.7.1
scipy: 0.12.0
statsmodels: 0.5.0
IPython: None
sphinx: 1.1.3
patsy: 0.3.0
dateutil: 1.5
pytz: 2012c
bottleneck: None
tables: 2.4.0
numexpr: 2.0.1
matplotlib: 1.2.1
openpyxl: 1.7.0
xlrd: 0.9.2
xlwt: 0.7.4
xlsxwriter: None
lxml: None
bs4: 4.2.0
html5lib: 0.95-dev
httplib2: None
apiclient: None
rpy2: None
sqlalchemy: None
pymysql: None
psycopg2: None

[jreback]

same here this PyTables too old and not supported
Numexpr too

[jreback]

we do s delayed import of tables so it's possible that the test machinery swallows the error