Getting Google Spreadsheet CSV into A Pandas Dataframe

Seems to work for me without the StringIO:

test = pd.read_csv('https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/' + 
                   '0Ak1ecr7i0wotdGJmTURJRnZLYlV3M2daNTRubTdwTXc' +
                   '/export?gid=0&format=csv',
                   # Set first column as rownames in data frame
                   index_col=0,
                   # Parse column values to datetime
                   parse_dates=['Quradate']
                  )
test.head(5)  # Same result as @TomAugspurger

BTW, including the ?gid= enables importing different sheets, find the gid in the URL.