Updates: misc

* whatsnew
* docstrings

Author: TomAugspurger

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.rst

@@ -1197,7 +1197,7 @@ Datetimelike
 - Bug in rounding methods of :class:`DatetimeIndex` (:meth:`~DatetimeIndex.round`, :meth:`~DatetimeIndex.ceil`, :meth:`~DatetimeIndex.floor`) and :class:`Timestamp` (:meth:`~Timestamp.round`, :meth:`~Timestamp.ceil`, :meth:`~Timestamp.floor`) could give rise to loss of precision (:issue:`22591`)
 - Bug in :func:`to_datetime` with an :class:`Index` argument that would drop the ``name`` from the result (:issue:`21697`)
 - Bug in :class:`PeriodIndex` where adding or subtracting a :class:`timedelta` or :class:`Tick` object produced incorrect results (:issue:`22988`)
-- Bug in the :class:`Series` repr with Period data missing a space before the data (:issue:`23601`)
+- Bug in the :class:`Series` repr with period-dtype data missing a space before the data (:issue:`23601`)
 - Bug in :func:`date_range` when decrementing a start date to a past end date by a negative frequency (:issue:`23270`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.min` which would return ``NaN`` instead of ``NaT`` when called on a series of ``NaT`` (:issue:`23282`)
 - Bug in :func:`DataFrame.combine` with datetimelike values raising a TypeError (:issue:`23079`)

pandas/core/arrays/base.py

@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ class ExtensionArray(object):
     and dtype is provided. It can be customized or replaced by
     by overriding:
 
-    * _formatter
-    * __repr__
+    * __repr__ : A default repr for the ExtensionArray.
+    * _formatter : Print scalars inside a Series or DataFrame.
 
     Some methods require casting the ExtensionArray to an ndarray of Python
     objects with ``self.astype(object)``, which may be expensive. When
@@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ def _formatter(self, boxed=False):
         -------
         Callable[[Any], str]
             A callable that gets instances of the scalar type and
-            returns a string. By defult, :func:`repr` is used.
+            returns a string. By default, :func:`repr` is used.
         """
         return repr