DOC: Improved doc string for IntervalIndex + related changes
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This PR has Improvements for the doc string for ``IntervalIndex`` + related changes

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Hello @topper-123! Thanks for updating the PR.



Cheers ! There are no PEP8 issues in this Pull Request. :beers: 

##### Comment last updated on September 28, 2017 at 15:55 Hours UTC
Ok, all comments taken care of.
Hi @jorisvandenbossche . I've found, that the output string from the examples in the ``from_*`` methods is wrong, and I'm guessing they are from an older version of ``IntervalIndex``. The second commit proposal is regarding that.

In addition, the time-based examples for ``pd.interval_range`` don't work. I'l submit a issue regarding that as it must be a code issue. *Edit : filed issue as #17707 on this*
> I'm guessing they are from an older version of IntervalIndex

Yes, the repr was changes during the PR process of adding the IntervalIndex, so not examples were updated for that
@topper-123 Thanks a lot!