ASV: occasional asv failures on xlwt #19779
Description
https://travis-ci.org/pandas-dev/pandas-ci/jobs/343616367
this is on current pandas master (this is just the CI job running it).
excel asv's
The following asvs benchmarks (if any) failed. [ 43.02%] ··· Running io.excel.Excel.time_read_excel 1/3 failed xlwt failed DONE displaying failed asvs benchmarks. I have seen this work as well. maybe a race-condition?