DEPR: deprecate (Sparse)Series.from_array
State: closed

Closes #18213. 

It's a bit annoying that I have to keep it as internal method. On the other hand this might signal that `from_array` actually has some use case ..

Labels:
name: Sparse
description: Sparse Data Type
name: Deprecate
description: Functionality to remove in pandas

Comments:
# [Codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/18258?src=pr&el=h1) Report
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| [pandas/core/frame.py](https://codecov.io/gh/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/18258?src=pr&el=tree#diff-cGFuZGFzL2NvcmUvZnJhbWUucHk=) | `97.8% <100%> (ø)` | |
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thanks!
@jorisvandenbossche @jreback : This commit introduced the first (and only) instance of `pytest.warns` instead of our in-house `tm.assert_produces_warning`.  Do we have a preference for which should be used now that we require `pytest >= 3.1` ?
@gfyoung let's just use ``assert_produces_warning``. and alway pls add a lint rule to fail on``pytest.warns``. We could of course change to use ``pytest.warns`` (maybe) but that's a different issue.
@jreback : I figured as such.  Thanks for confirming.