Added reference to original issue in the test + test the result itsel…

…f (assuming that previous test is OK)

pandas/io/tests/test_common.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 from pandas.io import common
 from pandas.compat import is_platform_windows, StringIO
 
-from pandas import read_csv, read_table, concat
+from pandas import read_csv, concat
 
 try:
     from pathlib import Path
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ class TestCommonIOCapabilities(tm.TestCase):
 foo2,12,13,14,15
 bar2,12,13,14,15
 """
-
+    data2 = data1.replace(",", " ")
+
     def test_expand_user(self):
         filename = '~/sometest'
         expanded_name = common._expand_user(filename)
@@ -90,14 +91,17 @@ def test_iterator(self):
         expected.index = [0 for i in range(len(expected))]
         tm.assert_frame_equal(concat(it), expected.iloc[1:])
 
+    #13398
     def test_temporary_file(self):
         from tempfile import TemporaryFile
         new_file = TemporaryFile("w+")
-        new_file.write("0   0")
+        new_file.write(self.data2)
         new_file.flush()
         new_file.seek(0)
 
-        dataframe = read_table(new_file, sep=r"\s+", header=None, engine="python")
+        result = read_csv(new_file, sep=r"\s+", engine="python")
+        expected = read_csv(StringIO(self.data1))
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
 
 class TestMMapWrapper(tm.TestCase):