DOC: update the pandas.Series.dropna docstring by Ankara Chapter
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Hello @Neuroscitechie! Thanks for updating the PR.

 - In the file [`pandas/core/series.py`](https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/0195a350de9a49fb6c5166d6f88f62fe6d0645d9/pandas/core/series.py), following are the PEP8 issues :

> [Line 2996:80](https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/0195a350de9a49fb6c5166d6f88f62fe6d0645d9/pandas/core/series.py#L2996): [E501](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pep8%20E501) line too long (81 > 79 characters)



##### Comment last updated on March 14, 2018 at 15:21 Hours UTC
Hmm can you check to see if your editor changed the newline mode of the document? The diff should just be the lines you changed, not the entire file.

Ping me in the chat if you need help figuring it out.
I collected edits from everyone and uploaded the file instead of updating the lines only
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We seem to have a conflicting PR: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/20204 (that one is doing both DataFrame and Series dropna)
Closing in favor of #20204.