ERR: better error message on invalid timestamp parsing #11977
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In [2]: pd.Timestamp('2010011') --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ValueError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-2-ccfd37d6ef5d> in <module>() ----> 1 pd.Timestamp('2010011') /Users/jreback/pandas/pandas/tslib.pyx in pandas.tslib.Timestamp.__new__ (pandas/tslib.c:8958)() 296 cdef _Timestamp ts_base 297 --> 298 ts = convert_to_tsobject(ts_input, tz, unit) 299 300 if ts.value == NPY_NAT: /Users/jreback/pandas/pandas/tslib.pyx in pandas.tslib.convert_to_tsobject (pandas/tslib.c:24122)() 1232 1233 if util.is_string_object(ts): -> 1234 return convert_str_to_tsobject(ts, tz, unit) 1235 1236 if ts is None or ts is NaT: /Users/jreback/pandas/pandas/tslib.pyx in pandas.tslib.convert_str_to_tsobject (pandas/tslib.c:26110)() 1361 ts = parse_datetime_string(ts, dayfirst=dayfirst, yearfirst=yearfirst) 1362 except Exception: -> 1363 raise ValueError 1364 1365 return convert_to_tsobject(ts, tz, unit) ValueError: we are should have a nice error message here. This is normally caught for example in to_datetime, but if its only a single Timestamp no message.