Same as #5431 but for Python. jkbradley

Author: Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com>

Closes #5534 from mengxr/SPARK-6893 and squashes the following commits:

d3b519b [Xiangrui Meng] address comments
ebaccc6 [Xiangrui Meng] style update
fce244e [Xiangrui Meng] update explainParams with test
4d6b07a [Xiangrui Meng] add tests
5294500 [Xiangrui Meng] update default param handling in python