BUG: Fixes GH14554

RecursionError no longer forced into KeyError/IndexError

Author: clham

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.2.txt

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 - Compat with ``dateutil==2.6.0``; segfault reported in the testing suite (:issue:`14621`)
 - Allow ``nanoseconds`` in ``Timestamp.replace`` as a kwarg (:issue:`14621`)
-
+-Bug in indexing that transformed ``RecursionError`` into ``KeyError`` or ``IndexingError`` (:issue:`14554`) 
 
 
 

pandas/core/indexing.py

@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ def _multi_take(self, tup):
                 [(a, self._convert_for_reindex(t, axis=o._get_axis_number(a)))
                  for t, a in zip(tup, o._AXIS_ORDERS)])
             return o.reindex(**d)
-        except:
+        except (KeyError, IndexError):
             raise self._exception
 
     def _convert_for_reindex(self, key, axis=0):