Fixed query_by_values so that it only accepts series and lists.

[alexruah]

…o changed _vals_to_series

Pull Request Description

I edited the query_by_values and vals_to_series methods so that they don't handle the parameter instance_vals of types pd.DataFrame or str. I did this by removing conversion from these types to pd.Series.

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