CLN: More cleanup and comments

Author: gfyoung

pandas/io/clipboards.py

@@ -34,17 +34,10 @@ def read_clipboard(sep=r'\s+', **kwargs):  # pragma: no cover
 
     from pandas.io.clipboard import clipboard_get
     from pandas.io.parsers import read_csv
-    text = clipboard_get()
 
-    # try to decode (if needed)
-    # Strange. linux py33 doesn't complain, win py33 does
-    try:
-        text = compat.bytes_to_str(
-            text, encoding=(kwargs.get('encoding') or
-                            get_option('display.encoding'))
-        )
-    except AttributeError:
-        pass
+    text = clipboard_get()
+    text = compat.bytes_to_str(text, encoding=(kwargs.get('encoding') or
+                                               get_option('display.encoding')))
 
     # Excel copies into clipboard with \t separation
     # inspect no more then the 10 first lines, if they

pandas/io/common.py

@@ -491,8 +491,10 @@ def next(self):
         return next(self.reader).encode("utf-8")
 
 
+# Keeping these class for now because it provides a necessary convenience
+# for "dropping" the "encoding" argument from our I/O arguments when
+# creating a Unicode I/O object.
 def UnicodeReader(f, dialect=csv.excel, encoding="utf-8", **kwds):
-    # ignore encoding
     return csv.reader(f, dialect=dialect, **kwds)
 
 

pandas/io/formats/terminal.py

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 """
 Terminal utilities.
 """
-from __future__ import print_function
 
 __all__ = ['is_terminal']