BUG: parase_dates column is in dataframe (pandas-dev#31251)

Author: sathyz

pandas/io/parsers.py

@@ -3278,6 +3278,8 @@ def _isindex(colspec):
             if is_scalar(colspec):
                 if isinstance(colspec, int) and colspec not in data_dict:
                     colspec = orig_names[colspec]
+                elif colspec not in orig_names:
+                    raise ValueError(f"'{colspec}' is not in list")
                 if _isindex(colspec):
                     continue
                 data_dict[colspec] = converter(data_dict[colspec])

pandas/tests/io/parser/test_parse_dates.py

@@ -1516,3 +1516,14 @@ def test_hypothesis_delimited_date(date_format, dayfirst, delimiter, test_dateti
 
     assert except_out_dateutil == except_in_dateutil
     assert result == expected
+
+
+def test_missing_column(all_parsers):
+    parser = all_parsers
+    content = StringIO("time,val\n" "212.23, 32\n")
+    date_cols = ["time"]
+    msg = "'time' is not in list"
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=msg):
+        parser.read_csv(
+            content, sep=",", usecols=["val"], parse_dates=date_cols,
+        )