DOC: added a reference to DataFrame assign in concatenate section of merging

obilodeau · obilodeau · commit d5d9c7a97f81 · 2018-02-19T16:51:03.000-05:00
Because of various stack overflow answers we are directed to the merging
page where a link to DataFrame.assign would be better. Adding the
reference here will make people's code better. At least it would have
for me.
diff --git a/doc/source/merging.rst b/doc/source/merging.rst
@@ -323,6 +323,11 @@ the name of the ``Series``.
           labels=['df1', 's1'], vertical=False);
    plt.close('all');
 
+.. note::
+
+   You can perform the same task using the DataFrame method
+   :meth:`~pandas.DataFrame.assign`.
+
 If unnamed ``Series`` are passed they will be numbered consecutively.
 
 .. ipython:: python
diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.23.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.23.0.txt
@@ -658,6 +658,7 @@ Documentation Changes
   Rewrote some sentences for greater clarity, added more dynamic references
   to functions, methods and classes.
   (:issue:`18941`, :issue:`18948`, :issue:`18973`, :issue:`19017`)
+- Added a reference to :func:`DataFrame.assign` in the concatenate section of the merging documentation (:issue:`18665`)
 -
 
 .. _whatsnew_0230.bug_fixes:

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`@@ -658,6 +658,7 @@ Documentation Changes`
`658`	`658`	`Rewrote some sentences for greater clarity, added more dynamic references`
`659`	`659`	`to functions, methods and classes.`
`660`	`660`	(:issue:`18941`, :issue:`18948`, :issue:`18973`, :issue:`19017`)
	`661`	+- Added a reference to :func:`DataFrame.assign` in the concatenate section of the merging documentation (:issue:`18665`)
`661`	`662`	`-`
`662`	`663`
`663`	`664`	`.. _whatsnew_0230.bug_fixes:`