sklearn api for ranking (#3560)

* added xgbranker

* fixed predict method and ranking test

* reformatted code in accordance with pep8

* fixed lint error

* fixed docstring and added checks on objective

* added ranking demo for python

* fixed suffix in rank.py

demo/rank/README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Learning to rank
 ====
-XGBoost supports accomplishing ranking tasks. In ranking scenario, data are often grouped and we need the [group information file](../../doc/input_format.md#group-input-format) to specify ranking tasks. The model used in XGBoost for ranking is the LambdaRank, this function is not yet completed. Currently, we provide pairwise rank.
+XGBoost supports accomplishing ranking tasks. In ranking scenario, data are often grouped and we need the [group information file](../../doc/tutorials/input_format.md#group-input-format) to specify ranking tasks. The model used in XGBoost for ranking is the LambdaRank, this function is not yet completed. Currently, we provide pairwise rank.
 
 ### Parameters
 The configuration setting is similar to the regression and binary classification setting, except user need to specify the objectives:
@@ -15,14 +15,27 @@ For more usage details please refer to the [binary classification demo](../binar
 Instructions
 ====
 The dataset for ranking demo is from LETOR04 MQ2008 fold1.
-You can use the following command to run the example:
+Before running the examples, you need to get the data by running:
 
-Get the data:
 ```
 ./wgetdata.sh
 ```
 
+### Command Line
 Run the example:
 ```
 ./runexp.sh
 ```
+
+### Python
+There are two ways of doing ranking in python.  
+
+Run the example using `xgboost.train`:
+```
+python rank.py
+```
+
+Run the example using `XGBRanker`:
+```
+python rank_sklearn.py
+```