Stop Series from attempting to sort index

[Brendan Barnwell]

It appears that it is not possible to create a Series from a dict whose keys are unorderable.  Series.__init__ unconditionally attempts to sort a dict that is passed as the data.

>>> pandas.Series({1j: 1, 2j: 2})
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#33>", line 1, in <module>
    pandas.Series({1j: 1, 2j: 2})
  File "c:\users\brenbarn\documents\python\extensions\pandas\pandas\core\series.py", line 444, in __new__
    index = Index(sorted(data))
TypeError: no ordering relation is defined for complex numbers

Should I raise a ticket for this?  It's possible to work around it by passing in the dict values as the data and the keys as the indices, but this is somewhat cumbersome.  It would be nice to just have a flag to pass to Series to say "don't try to sort anything".

[Wes McKinney]

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Yes, could you create a github issue? Definitely a bug.

- Wes

[Wouter Overmeire]

2013/5/19 Wes McKinney <wesm...@gmail.com>

adding reference to the created github issue for this  https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/3658