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Yes, as you say, in principle rst needs blank lines if you use a nested list (but I am not sure how this is actually handled in the docstrings, should test that).
But in this case, as trade-off between looking nice in html and in plain text, I would maybe go without the nesting of the lists? (as now it takes quite some space in the plaintext version). Something like:

* boolean: If True -> try parsing the index.
* list of ints or names: If [1, 2, 3] -> try parsing columns 1, 2, 3 each as a separate date
  column.
* list of lists: If [[1, 3]] -> combine columns 1 and 3 and parse as a single date
  column.
* dict: {'foo' : [1, 3]} -> parse columns 1, 3 as date and call result 'foo'