Merge in autoscaling

tests/helpers.py

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+import boto
+from nose.plugins.skip import SkipTest
+
+
+def version_tuple(v):
+    return tuple(map(int, (v.split("."))))
+
+
+class requires_boto_gte(object):
+    """Decorator for requiring boto version greater than or equal to 'version'"""
+    def __init__(self, version):
+        self.version = version
+
+    def __call__(self, test):
+        boto_version = version_tuple(boto.__version__)
+        required = version_tuple(self.version)
+        if boto_version >= required:
+            return test()
+        raise SkipTest