ma.mrecords not found

[dieterv77]

Running into the issue below with pandas master and numpy compiled from 1.8.x maintenance branch. If i do "import numpy.ma.mrecords" in ipython and try again, then creating the DataFrame works fine. Maybe the best thing to do is to add "import numpy.ma.mrecords" in core/frame.py?

import numpy.ma as ma
import pandas
x = ma.masked_all((3,4))
df = pandas.DataFrame(x)

AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-8935d2e6ea81> in <module>()
----> 1 df = pandas.DataFrame(x)

C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pandas-0.12.0_1147_g39ad4cb-py2.7-win-amd64.egg\pandas\core\frame.pyc in __init__(self, data, index, columns, dtype, copy)
    203 
    204             # masked recarray
--> 205             if isinstance(data, ma.mrecords.MaskedRecords):
    206                 mgr = _masked_rec_array_to_mgr(data, index, columns, dtype,
    207                                                copy)

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

[jreback]

this is very odd

in tests/test_frame.py

we have

import numpy.ma as ma
import numpy.ma.mrecords as mrecords

so the test works, it seems that the importing of mrecords changed the ma namespace (to
make mrecords exist)

@dieterv77 would you put up a PR to address this (you can do the import after ma.MaskedArray is checked)

[dieterv77]

Yeah, i was a bit baffled but i figured i was missing something.
i'll make a PR sometime this weekend. thanks for looking.