ENH: enable Series.info()

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.4.0.rst

@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ Other enhancements
 - Added "Juneteenth National Independence Day" to
   ``USFederalHolidayCalendar``.  See also `Other API changes`_.
 - :meth:`.Rolling.var`, :meth:`.Expanding.var`, :meth:`.Rolling.std`, :meth:`.Expanding.std` now support `Numba <http://numba.pydata.org/>`_ execution with the ``engine`` keyword (:issue:`44461`)
+- :meth:`Series.info` has been added, for compatibility with :meth:`DataFrame.info` (:issue:`5167`)
 
 
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pandas/core/frame.py

@@ -206,6 +206,7 @@
     format as fmt,
 )
 from pandas.io.formats.info import (
+    INFO_DOCSTRING,
     DataFrameInfo,
     frame_sub_kwargs,
 )
@@ -3138,7 +3139,7 @@ def to_xml(
         return xml_formatter.write_output()
 
     # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-    @doc(DataFrameInfo.render, **frame_sub_kwargs)
+    @doc(INFO_DOCSTRING, **frame_sub_kwargs)
     def info(
         self,
         verbose: bool | None = None,

pandas/core/series.py

@@ -139,6 +139,11 @@
 from pandas.core.tools.datetimes import to_datetime
 
 import pandas.io.formats.format as fmt
+from pandas.io.formats.info import (
+    INFO_DOCSTRING,
+    SeriesInfo,
+    series_sub_kwargs,
+)
 import pandas.plotting
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -4914,6 +4919,22 @@ def replace(
             method=method,
         )
 
+    @doc(INFO_DOCSTRING, **series_sub_kwargs)
+    def info(
+        self,
+        verbose: bool | None = None,
+        buf: IO[str] | None = None,
+        max_cols: int | None = None,
+        memory_usage: bool | str | None = None,
+        show_counts: bool = True,
+    ) -> None:
+        return SeriesInfo(self, memory_usage).render(
+            buf=buf,
+            max_cols=max_cols,
+            verbose=verbose,
+            show_counts=show_counts,
+        )
+
     def _replace_single(self, to_replace, method: str, inplace: bool, limit):
         """
         Replaces values in a Series using the fill method specified when no