Merge pull request #84 from davidastephens/pause

ENH: Don't pause on first attempt.

Author: davidastephens

pandas_datareader/utils.py

@@ -104,7 +104,6 @@ def _retry_read_url(url, retry_count, pause, name):
     Open url (and retry)
     """
     for _ in range(retry_count):
-        time.sleep(pause)
 
         # kludge to close the socket ASAP
         try:
@@ -129,5 +128,7 @@ def _retry_read_url(url, retry_count, pause, name):
 
             return rs
 
+        time.sleep(pause)
+
     raise IOError("after %d tries, %s did not "
                   "return a 200 for url %r" % (retry_count, name, url))

pandas_datareader/yahoo/actions.py

@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ def _get_data(symbol, start=None, end=None, retry_count=3, pause=0.001):
     url = _encode_url(_URL, params)
 
     for _ in range(retry_count):
-        time.sleep(pause)
 
         try:
             with urlopen(url) as resp:
@@ -82,5 +81,7 @@ def _get_data(symbol, start=None, end=None, retry_count=3, pause=0.001):
 
             return DataFrame(actions_entries, index=actions_index)
 
+        time.sleep(pause)
+
     raise IOError("after %d tries, Yahoo! did not " \
                                 "return a 200 for url %r" % (retry_count, url))