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# xpressinsight.data.Series

Purpose
Creates an annotation for a Series entity to be fetched from another scenario.
Synopsis
`xpressinsight.data.Series(*, dtype: Type[BasicType] = None, entity_name: str = None, series_name: str = None, index_names: List[str] = None, index_types: List[Type[BasicType]] = None) -> Type[pandas.Series]`
Arguments

dtype | The data type; one of boolean, real, integer or string. If given, :fct-ref:`insight.get_scenario_data will verify the data being fetched is of this type.
entity_name | The name of the entity to read. If not given, the name of the class attribute will be used as the entity name.
series_name | The name to use for the values in the resultant series. If not given, the entity name will be used.
index_names | The names of the columns to use for the index(es) in the resultant series. If not given, names derived from the index entities in the other scenario will be used. If given, the names must be unique and there must be one for each index column.
index_types | The expected data-types for each of the index columns in the series. If given, you must specify a type for each index of this series and :fct-ref:`insight.get_scenario_data will verify the index values being fetched is of these types.

Example

    >>> Result: xi.data.Series(dtype=xi.real, series_name='Result Array',
    ...                        index_names=['IndexSet1', 'IndexSet2'],)

Further information
1. The function Series is part of the package xpressinsight.data.
2. This function returns an Annotated type containing the Series entity object; for example, if xpressinsight has been imported as xi, then xi.data.Series(index_names=['idx1', 'idx2'], dtype=xi.integer) is equivalent to Annotated[pandas.Series, xi.Series(index=['idx1', 'idx2'], dtype=xi.integer)].
Related topics
AppInterface.get_scenario_data,
BasicType,
ScenarioData,
Series
Parent Topic Scenario Data Entity Definitions

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