Author: Reynold Xin <rxin@databricks.com>

Closes #6601 from rxin/python-read-write-test-and-doc and squashes the following commits:

baa8ad5 [Reynold Xin] Code review feedback.
f081d47 [Reynold Xin] More documentation updates.
c9902fa [Reynold Xin] [SPARK-8060] Improve DataFrame Python reader/writer interface doc and testing.