dont catch in conversion.pyx

Author: jbrockmendel

pandas/_libs/tslibs/conversion.pyx

@@ -542,16 +542,9 @@ cdef _TSObject convert_str_to_tsobject(str ts, tzinfo tz, str unit,
                 maybe_localize_tso(obj, tz, obj.creso)
                 return obj
 
-        try:
-            dt = parse_datetime_string(
-                ts, dayfirst=dayfirst, yearfirst=yearfirst
-            )
-        except ValueError as err:
-            if "out of range for month" in str(err):
-                # dateutil raised when constructing a datetime object,
-                #  let's give a nicer exception message
-                raise ValueError("could not convert string to Timestamp") from err
-            raise
+        dt = parse_datetime_string(
+            ts, dayfirst=dayfirst, yearfirst=yearfirst
+        )
 
     return convert_datetime_to_tsobject(dt, tz)
 

pandas/tests/io/pytables/test_select.py

@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ def test_frame_select(setup_path):
         # invalid terms
         df = tm.makeTimeDataFrame()
         store.append("df_time", df)
-        msg = "could not convert string to Timestamp"
+        msg = "day is out of range for month: 0"
         with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=msg):
             store.select("df_time", "index>0")
 

pandas/tests/tools/test_to_datetime.py

@@ -2791,7 +2791,7 @@ def test_day_not_in_month_coerce(self, cache, arg, format, warning):
             assert isna(to_datetime(arg, errors="coerce", format=format, cache=cache))
 
     def test_day_not_in_month_raise(self, cache):
-        msg = "could not convert string to Timestamp"
+        msg = "day is out of range for month: 2015-02-29, at position 0"
         with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=msg):
             with tm.assert_produces_warning(
                 UserWarning, match="Could not infer format"