DOC: Fix flake8 issues in doc/source/merging.rst

[datapythonista]

We didn't start validating the format of PEP8 and other code standards in the documentation examples until recently. We still have some files with errors, that we need to skip, and that we should fix, so we can start validating them.

The first step of this issue would be edit setup.cfg in the pandas home, and in the flake8-rst section, remove from the exclude list the file doc/source/merging.rst

After that, running the next command will report the errors in the file (note that syntax error usually prevent to validate other errors, and the list of errors to fix can become much longer when the syntax error is fixed (please make sure that you are using flake8-rst version 0.7.0 or higher):

$ flake8-rst doc/source/merging.rst 
doc/source/merging.rst:42:24: E127 continuation line over-indented for visual indent
doc/source/merging.rst:48:25: E127 continuation line over-indented for visual indent
doc/source/merging.rst:54:24: E127 continuation line over-indented for visual indent
doc/source/merging.rst:383:47: E231 missing whitespace after ','
doc/source/merging.rst:383:54: E231 missing whitespace after ','
doc/source/merging.rst:440:20: E128 continuation line under-indented for visual indent
doc/source/merging.rst:441:20: E128 continuation line under-indented for visual indent
doc/source/merging.rst:729:28: E203 whitespace before ':'
doc/source/merging.rst:729:33: E231 missing whitespace after ','
doc/source/merging.rst:729:41: E203 whitespace before ':'
doc/source/merging.rst:731:29: E203 whitespace before ':'
doc/source/merging.rst:731:34: E231 missing whitespace after ','
doc/source/merging.rst:731:36: E231 missing whitespace after ','
doc/source/merging.rst:731:48: E231 missing whitespace after ','
doc/source/merging.rst:731:50: E231 missing whitespace after ','
doc/source/merging.rst:804:50: E231 missing whitespace after ':'
doc/source/merging.rst:805:41: E231 missing whitespace after ','
doc/source/merging.rst:805:53: E231 missing whitespace after ':'
doc/source/merging.rst:860:83: E501 line too long (81 > 79 characters)
doc/source/merging.rst:869:9: E126 continuation line over-indented for hanging indent
doc/source/merging.rst:906:25: E127 continuation line over-indented for visual indent
doc/source/merging.rst:910:26: E127 continuation line over-indented for visual indent
doc/source/merging.rst:1002:26: E127 continuation line over-indented for visual indent
doc/source/merging.rst:1041:23: E128 continuation line under-indented for visual indent
doc/source/merging.rst:1042:22: E128 continuation line under-indented for visual indent
doc/source/merging.rst:1137:29: E203 whitespace before ':'
doc/source/merging.rst:1142:36: E226 missing whitespace around arithmetic operator
doc/source/merging.rst:1157:25: E127 continuation line over-indented for visual indent
doc/source/merging.rst:1164:26: E127 continuation line over-indented for visual indent
doc/source/merging.rst:1167:63: E231 missing whitespace after ','
doc/source/merging.rst:1167:67: E231 missing whitespace after ','

Once all the errors are addressed, please open a pull request with the fixes in the file, and removing the file from setup.cfg. If you need to do something that feels wrong to fix an error, please ask in a comment to this issue. Please avoid other unrelated changes, which can be addressed in a separate pull request.

[addisonlynch]

Hi @datapythonista, I'd be happy to take this one.

[datapythonista]

Excellent, all yours. Let me know if you need help. Thanks for helping @addisonlynch