Deprecate Series.from_array ?

[jorisvandenbossche]

I just noticed we have a Series.from_array method (I was not conscientiously aware of that :-))

Is there any reason you would want to use that instead of the normal pd.Series(..) constructor ?

[TomAugspurger]

+1 for deprecating.

[jreback]

yep, didn't even know we had this.

[jorisvandenbossche]

Looking at the code: the thing it does differently compared to Series constructor is that it detects if a SparseArray is passed and in that case returns a SparseSeries.
Is that a use case we care about?

Further, it is also overridden in SparseSeries. Not sure if it there has a better use case than on plain Series.
(cc @sinhrks, or who are the Sparse experts nowadays?)

[jorisvandenbossche]

Looking at the sparse code, it just passes through exactly to the SparseSeries class constructor, so there it has even less use it seems.