TST: Parse dates with empty space (#6428)

Author: mroeschke

pandas/io/tests/test_date_converters.py

@@ -138,6 +138,19 @@ def date_parser(date, time):
                                names=['datetime', 'prn']))
         assert_frame_equal(df, df_correct)
 
+    def test_parse_date_column_with_empty_string(self):
+        # GH 6428
+        data = """case,opdate
+                  7,10/18/2006
+                  7,10/18/2008
+                  621, """
+        result = read_csv(StringIO(data), parse_dates=['opdate'])
+        expected_data = [[7, '10/18/2006'],
+                         [7, '10/18/2008'],
+                         [621, ' ']]
+        expected = DataFrame(expected_data, columns=['case', 'opdate'])
+        assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     nose.runmodule(argv=[__file__, '-vvs', '-x', '--pdb', '--pdb-failure'],
                    exit=False)

pandas/tseries/tests/test_timeseries.py

@@ -947,6 +947,18 @@ def test_to_datetime_on_datetime64_series(self):
         result = to_datetime(s)
         self.assertEqual(result[0], s[0])
 
+    def test_to_datetime_with_space_in_series(self):
+        # GH 6428
+        s = Series(['10/18/2006', '10/18/2008', ' '])
+        tm.assertRaises(ValueError, lambda: to_datetime(s, errors='raise'))
+        result_coerce = to_datetime(s, errors='coerce')
+        expected_coerce = Series([datetime(2006, 10, 18),
+                                  datetime(2008, 10, 18),
+                                  pd.NaT])
+        tm.assert_series_equal(result_coerce, expected_coerce)
+        result_ignore = to_datetime(s, errors='ignore')
+        tm.assert_series_equal(result_ignore, s)
+
     def test_to_datetime_with_apply(self):
         # this is only locale tested with US/None locales
         _skip_if_has_locale()