Indexing single level with list of missing labels raises if (and only if) it has length 1

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Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible

In [2]: mi = pd.MultiIndex.from_tuples([[1, 2, -1], [3,4, -2], [5, 6, -3]])                                                                                                                                                                   

In [3]: s = pd.Series(1, mi)                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

In [4]: s.loc[[100, 101]]                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Out[4]: Series([], dtype: int64)

In [5]: s.loc[[100]]                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
KeyError                                  Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-7a5bc11c892d> in <module>
----> 1 s.loc[[100]]

~/nobackup/repo/pandas/pandas/core/indexing.py in __getitem__(self, key)
   1427 
   1428             maybe_callable = com.apply_if_callable(key, self.obj)
-> 1429             return self._getitem_axis(maybe_callable, axis=axis)
   1430 
   1431     def _is_scalar_access(self, key):

~/nobackup/repo/pandas/pandas/core/indexing.py in _getitem_axis(self, key, axis)
   1829                     raise ValueError('Cannot index with multidimensional key')
   1830 
-> 1831                 return self._getitem_iterable(key, axis=axis)
   1832 
   1833             # nested tuple slicing

~/nobackup/repo/pandas/pandas/core/indexing.py in _getitem_iterable(self, key, axis)
   1131             # A collection of keys
   1132             keyarr, indexer = self._get_listlike_indexer(key, axis,
-> 1133                                                          raise_missing=False)
   1134             return self.obj._reindex_with_indexers({axis: [keyarr, indexer]},
   1135                                                    copy=True, allow_dups=True)

~/nobackup/repo/pandas/pandas/core/indexing.py in _get_listlike_indexer(self, key, axis, raise_missing)
   1068         # if it cannot handle:
   1069         indexer, keyarr = ax._convert_listlike_indexer(key,
-> 1070                                                        kind=self.name)
   1071         # We only act on all found values:
   1072         if indexer is not None and (indexer != -1).all():

~/nobackup/repo/pandas/pandas/core/indexes/multi.py in _convert_listlike_indexer(self, keyarr, kind)
   2255             mask = check == -1
   2256             if mask.any():
-> 2257                 raise KeyError('%s not in index' % keyarr[mask])
   2258 
   2259         return indexer, keyarr

KeyError: '[100] not in index'

Problem description

Because of a trivial typo, behavior depends on whether the list has length at least 2. The "one item" behavior is arguably seldomly used, and future incompatible (xref: #20916 ).

Expected Output

Like Out[4]:.

Output of pd.show_versions()

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : b491329
python : 3.7.3.candidate.1
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 4.9.0-9-amd64
machine : x86_64
processor :
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : it_IT.UTF-8
LOCALE : it_IT.UTF-8

pandas : 0.25.0.dev0+849.gb4913295a
numpy : 1.16.4
pytz : 2016.7
dateutil : 2.8.0
pip : 9.0.1
setuptools : 41.0.1
Cython : 0.29.2
pytest : 4.6.3
hypothesis : 3.71.11
sphinx : 1.4.9
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : 0.9.6
lxml.etree : 4.3.2
html5lib : 0.999999999
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 2.10.1
IPython : 7.5.0
pandas_datareader: 0.2.1
bs4 : 4.5.3
bottleneck : 1.2.1
fastparquet : None
gcsfs : None
lxml.etree : 4.3.2
matplotlib : 3.0.2
numexpr : 2.6.9
openpyxl : 2.3.0
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : None
pytables : None
s3fs : None
scipy : 1.1.0
sqlalchemy : 1.0.15
tables : 3.4.4
xarray : None
xlrd : 1.0.0
xlwt : 1.3.0
xlsxwriter : 0.9.6