CLN: Resubmit of GH14700. Fixes GH14554. Errors other than Indexing…

IdnexError and KeyError now bubble up appropriately.

closes #14554

Author: Chris Ham <chris@christopher-ham.com>

Closes #14912 from clham/gh14554-b and squashes the following commits:

458c0cc [Chris Ham] CLN: Resubmit of GH14700.  Fixes GH14554.  Errors other than IndexingError and KeyError now bubble up appropriately.

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.2.txt

@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ Bug Fixes
 - Compat with python 3.6 for Timestamp pickles (:issue:`14689`)
 - Bug in resampling a ``DatetimeIndex`` in local TZ, covering a DST change, which would raise ``AmbiguousTimeError`` (:issue:`14682`)
 
+- Bug in indexing that transformed ``RecursionError`` into ``KeyError`` or ``IndexingError`` (:issue:`14554`)
 
 
 - Bug in ``HDFStore`` when writing a ``MultiIndex`` when using ``data_columns=True`` (:issue:`14435`)

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, IndexingError):
             raise self._exception
 
     def _convert_for_reindex(self, key, axis=0):