BUG: pandas-dev#31464 Fix error when parsing JSON list of bool into Series

Add a missing exception type to the except clause, to cover
the TypeError that is thrown by Cythonized array_to_datetime
function when trying to convert bool to nonseconds.

Author: jessefarnham

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.1.0.rst

@@ -429,6 +429,7 @@ I/O
 - Bug in :meth:`read_sas` was raising an ``AttributeError`` when reading files from Google Cloud Storage (issue:`33069`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.to_sql` where an ``AttributeError`` was raised when saving an out of bounds date (:issue:`26761`)
 - Bug in :meth:`read_excel` did not correctly handle multiple embedded spaces in OpenDocument text cells. (:issue:`32207`)
+- Bug in :meth:`read_json` was raising ``TypeError`` when reading a list of booleans into a Series. (:issue:`31464`)z
 
 Plotting
 ^^^^^^^^

pandas/io/json/_json.py

@@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ def _try_convert_to_date(self, data):
         for date_unit in date_units:
             try:
                 new_data = to_datetime(new_data, errors="raise", unit=date_unit)
-            except (ValueError, OverflowError):
+            except (ValueError, OverflowError, TypeError):
                 continue
             return new_data, True
         return data, False

pandas/tests/io/json/test_readlines.py

@@ -179,3 +179,9 @@ def test_readjson_unicode(monkeypatch):
         result = read_json(path)
         expected = pd.DataFrame({"£©µÀÆÖÞßéöÿ": ["АБВГДабвгд가"]})
         tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
+
+def test_readjson_bool_series():
+    result = read_json("[true, true, false]", typ="series")
+    expected = pd.Series([True, True, False])
+    tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)