Revert "Revert "Merge pull request #10727 from jorisvandenbossche/sph…
Reverts pydata/pandas#10916

This is becoming a nice title Revert of revert of ... :-)

Just opening this, so I can grab this and only change the syntaxerror to a code-block, to see if that lets travis build the docs correctly.
 Hmm, still not working ..
 @jorisvandenbossche status for this?
 @jorisvandenbossche status for this?
 @jorisvandenbossche close this?
 @jorisvandenbossche keep open?
 @jorisvandenbossche status of this?
 @jorisvandenbossche closing as a PR. maybe create an issue for this?
