ERR: more informative message on invalid Timestamp input

Author: jreback

pandas/tslib.pyx

@@ -489,6 +489,7 @@ class Timestamp(_Timestamp):
 
     def __reduce__(self):
         object_state = self.value, self.freq, self.tzinfo
+        print(object_state)
         return (Timestamp, object_state)
 
     def to_period(self, freq=None):
@@ -1539,7 +1540,8 @@ cdef convert_to_tsobject(object ts, object tz, object unit,
             "Cannot convert Period to Timestamp "
             "unambiguously. Use to_timestamp")
     else:
-        raise TypeError('Cannot convert input to Timestamp')
+        raise TypeError('Cannot convert input [{}] of type {} to '
+                        'Timestamp'.format(ts, type(ts)))
 
     if obj.value != NPY_NAT:
         _check_dts_bounds(&obj.dts)