add doc

Author: holymonson

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.txt

@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ Other Enhancements
 - :class:`IntervalIndex` has gained the :meth:`~IntervalIndex.set_closed` method to change the existing ``closed`` value (:issue:`21670`)
 - :func:`~DataFrame.to_csv` and :func:`~DataFrame.to_json` now support ``compression='infer'`` to infer compression based on filename (:issue:`15008`)
 - :func:`to_timedelta` now supports iso-formated timedelta strings (:issue:`21877`)
--
+- :class:`Series` and :class:`DataFrame` now support :class:`Iterable` in constructor (:issue:`2193`)
 
 .. _whatsnew_0240.api_breaking:
 

pandas/core/frame.py

@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame):
 
     Parameters
     ----------
-    data : numpy ndarray (structured or homogeneous), dict, or DataFrame
+    data : ndarray (structured or homogeneous), Iterable, dict, or DataFrame
         Dict can contain Series, arrays, constants, or list-like objects
 
         .. versionchanged :: 0.23.0
@@ -391,6 +391,8 @@ def __init__(self, data=None, index=None, columns=None, dtype=None,
             else:
                 mgr = self._init_ndarray(data, index, columns, dtype=dtype,
                                          copy=copy)
+
+        # For data is list-like, or Iterable (will consume into list)
         elif (isinstance(data, collections.Iterable)
               and not isinstance(data, string_and_binary_types)):
             if not isinstance(data, collections.Sequence):

pandas/core/series.py

@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ class Series(base.IndexOpsMixin, generic.NDFrame):
 
     Parameters
     ----------
-    data : array-like, dict, or scalar value
+    data : array-like, Iterable, dict, or scalar value
         Contains data stored in Series
 
         .. versionchanged :: 0.23.0
@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ def __init__(self, data=None, index=None, dtype=None, name=None,
             elif isinstance(data, (set, frozenset)):
                 raise TypeError("{0!r} type is unordered"
                                 "".format(data.__class__.__name__))
+            # If data is Iterable but not list-like, consume into list.
             elif (isinstance(data, collections.Iterable)
                   and not isinstance(data, collections.Sized)):
                 data = list(data)