vb_suite parser.py can shadow builtin parser module

[dsm054]

This is identical to Tom Augspurger's issue here.

Under some circumstances, you can't run the performance tests:

~/sys/pandas$ ./test_perf.sh 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mcneil/sys/pandas/vb_suite/test_perf.py", line 55, in <module>
    import pandas as pd
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pandas-0.13.0_75_g7d9e9fa-py2.7-linux-i686.egg/pandas/__init__.py", line 37, in <module>
    import pandas.core.config_init
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pandas-0.13.0_75_g7d9e9fa-py2.7-linux-i686.egg/pandas/core/config_init.py", line 17, in <module>
    from pandas.core.format import detect_console_encoding
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pandas-0.13.0_75_g7d9e9fa-py2.7-linux-i686.egg/pandas/core/format.py", line 9, in <module>
    from pandas.core.index import Index, MultiIndex, _ensure_index
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pandas-0.13.0_75_g7d9e9fa-py2.7-linux-i686.egg/pandas/core/index.py", line 11, in <module>
    import pandas.index as _index
  File "index.pyx", line 34, in init pandas.index (pandas/index.c:16227)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pytz/__init__.py", line 29, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import resource_stream
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 76, in <module>
    import parser
  File "/home/mcneil/sys/pandas/vb_suite/parser.py", line 1, in <module>
    from vbench.api import Benchmark
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vbench/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    import vbench.log
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vbench/log.py", line 34, in <module>
    from vbench.config import is_interactive
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vbench/config.py", line 4, in <module>
    TIME_ZONE = pytz.timezone('US/Eastern')
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'timezone'

This happens because pytz does

from pkg_resources import resource_stream

which itself calls

import parser

which is picking up pandas/vb_suite/parser.py instead of the builtin parser module. Net result: the pytz import never manages to get to the point where timezone is defined.

As expected, renaming parser.py solves the problem (and restoring the original name creates it again).

[dsm054]

@y-p: requested version information--

>>> import sys, pandas, pytz, setuptools
>>> sys.version
'2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2013, 20:08:41) \n[GCC 4.6.3]'
>>> pandas.__version__
'0.13.0-191-g46e1f14'
>>> pytz.__version__
'2013.9'
>>> setuptools.__version__
'2.1'

Nope, can't repro with those. Strange.
No matter, no harm changing it, it's an internal dev thing.