REF: No need to delegate to index check of whether an int is an int
State: closed

- [x] tests passed
- [x] passes `git diff upstream/master -u -- "*.py" | flake8 --diff`
- [x] whatsnew entry

Just fixing the following nonsensical error:

``` python
In [2]: pd.Series(range(10)).iloc['a']
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-4a32011255fe> in <module>()
----> 1 pd.Series(range(10)).iloc['a']
[...]
TypeError: cannot do positional indexing on <class 'pandas.core.indexes.range.RangeIndex'> with these indexers [a] of <class 'str'>
```

(you just cannot do positional indexing with a ``str``, regardless of the index)

... and adding a docstring while I was at it.

Labels:
name: Indexing
description: Related to indexing on series/frames, not to indexes themselves
name: Error Reporting
description: Incorrect or improved errors from pandas

Comments:
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See #21989 for the more general issue. Ready to merge if there are no objections.
Hello @toobaz! Thanks for updating the PR.







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

##### Comment last updated on July 20, 2018 at 13:23 Hours UTC
lgtm. merge on green.