STY: add comment about allowed whitespace in table (scipy#21851)

Co-authored-by: Matt Haberland <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Lucas Colley <[email protected]>

Author: mdhaber

scipy/stats/tests/test_stats.py

@@ -2254,15 +2254,22 @@ def test_regress_two_inputs_horizontal_line(self):
         assert_almost_equal(result.intercept_stderr, 0.0)
 
     def test_nist_norris(self):
-        x = [0.2, 337.4, 118.2, 884.6, 10.1, 226.5, 666.3, 996.3, 448.6, 777.0,
-             558.2, 0.4, 0.6, 775.5, 666.9, 338.0, 447.5, 11.6, 556.0, 228.1,
-             995.8, 887.6, 120.2, 0.3, 0.3, 556.8, 339.1, 887.2, 999.0, 779.0,
-             11.1, 118.3, 229.2, 669.1, 448.9, 0.5]
-
-        y = [0.1, 338.8, 118.1, 888.0, 9.2, 228.1, 668.5, 998.5, 449.1, 778.9,
-             559.2, 0.3, 0.1, 778.1, 668.8, 339.3, 448.9, 10.8, 557.7, 228.3,
-             998.0, 888.8, 119.6, 0.3, 0.6, 557.6, 339.3, 888.0, 998.5, 778.9,
-             10.2, 117.6, 228.9, 668.4, 449.2, 0.2]
+        # If this causes a lint failure in the future, please note the history of
+        # requests to allow extra whitespace in table formatting (e.g. gh-12367).
+        # Also see https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/Why-do-we-not-use-an-auto%E2%80%90formatter%3F  # noqa: E501 
+        x = [  0.2, 337.4, 118.2, 884.6, 10.1,  226.5,
+             666.3, 996.3, 448.6, 777.0, 558.2,   0.4,
+               0.6, 775.5, 666.9, 338.0, 447.5,  11.6,
+             556.0, 228.1, 995.8, 887.6, 120.2,   0.3,
+               0.3, 556.8, 339.1, 887.2, 999.0, 779.0,
+              11.1, 118.3, 229.2, 669.1, 448.9,   0.5]
+
+        y = [  0.1, 338.8, 118.1, 888.0, 9.2,   228.1,
+             668.5, 998.5, 449.1, 778.9, 559.2,   0.3,
+               0.1, 778.1, 668.8, 339.3, 448.9,  10.8,
+             557.7, 228.3, 998.0, 888.8, 119.6,   0.3,
+               0.6, 557.6, 339.3, 888.0, 998.5, 778.9,
+              10.2, 117.6, 228.9, 668.4, 449.2,   0.2]
 
         result = stats.linregress(x, y)