ENH: pickle support for Period pandas-dev#10439

update legacy_storage for pickles

update pickles/msgpack for 0.16.2

Added tests for ABC Types, Issue pandas-dev#10828

TST: pandas-dev#10822, skip tests on windows for odd error message in to_datetime with unicode

COMPAT:Allow multi-indexes to be written to excel.

(Even though they cannot be read back in.)

Closes pandas-dev#10564

DOC: typo

A few changes in docs

Author: Spencer Carrucciu

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt

@@ -612,13 +612,11 @@ Performance Improvements
 
 Bug Fixes
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 - Bug in ``DataFrame.to_html(index=False)`` renders unnecessary ``name`` row (:issue:`10344`)
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 - Bug in ``DataFrame.to_html(index=False)`` renders unnecessary ``name`` row (:issue:`10344`) 
->>>>>>> updating examples and the bug fix
 - Bug in ``DataFrame.apply`` when function returns categorical series. (:issue:`9573`)
 - Bug in ``to_datetime`` with invalid dates and formats supplied (:issue:`10154`)
 - Bug in ``Index.drop_duplicates`` dropping name(s) (:issue:`10115`)

pandas/tests/test_generic.py

@@ -799,41 +799,15 @@ def test_nan_interpolate(self):
         tm._skip_if_no_scipy()
         result = s.interpolate(method='polynomial', order=1)
         assert_series_equal(result, expected)
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-    # GH #10633
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-    # GH #10633: first attempt
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     # GH #10633
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-    def test_interpolate_spline(self):
-        np.random.seed(1)
-        s = pd.Series(np.arange(10)**2)
-        s[np.random.randint(0,9,3)] = np.nan
-        with tm.assertRaises(ValueError):
-            s.interpolate(method='spline')
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     def test_interpolate_spline(self):
         np.random.seed(1)
         t = pd.Series(np.arange(10)**2)
         t[np.random.randint(0,9,3)] = np.nan
         with tm.assertRaises(ValueError):
             t.interpolate(method='spline', order=0)
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+    
     def test_nan_irregular_index(self):
         s = Series([1, 2, np.nan, 4], index=[1, 3, 5, 9])
         result = s.interpolate()