BUG: not processing TypeError on reading some json (so was failing rather than trying not-numpy for dtypes)

Author: jreback

pandas/io/json.py

@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ def _parse(self):
                                              labelled=True))
                 else:
                     self.obj = Series(loads(json, dtype=dtype, numpy=True))
-            except ValueError:
+            except (ValueError,TypeError):
                 numpy = False
 
         if not numpy:
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ def _parse(self):
                 else:
                     self.obj = DataFrame(*loads(json, dtype=dtype, numpy=True,
                                          labelled=True))
-            except ValueError:
+            except (ValueError,TypeError):
                 numpy = False
 
         if not numpy:

pandas/io/tests/test_json/test_pandas.py

@@ -338,6 +338,18 @@ def test_weird_nested_json(self):
 
         read_json(s)
 
+    @network
+    @slow
+    def test_round_trip_exception_(self):
+		# GH 3867
+
+        df = pd.read_csv('https://raw.github.com/hayd/lahman2012/master/csvs/Teams.csv')
+        s = df.to_json()
+        result = pd.read_json(s)
+        result.index = result.index.astype(int)
+        result = result.reindex(columns=df.columns,index=df.index)
+        assert_frame_equal(result,df)
+
     @network
     @slow
     def test_url(self):