CLN: Resubmit of GH14700. Fixes GH14554. Errors other than IndexingError and KeyError now bubble up appropriately.

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.2.txt

@@ -96,3 +96,5 @@ Bug Fixes
 - Bug in ``.plot(kind='kde')`` which did not drop missing values to generate the KDE Plot, instead generating an empty plot. (:issue:`14821`)
 
 - Bug in ``unstack()`` if called with a list of column(s) as an argument, regardless of the dtypes of all columns, they get coerced to ``object`` (:issue:`11847`)
+
+-Bug in indexing that transformed ``RecursionError`` into ``KeyError`` or ``IndexingError`` (:issue:`14554`) 

pandas/core/indexing.py

@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ class _NDFrameIndexer(object):
                 [(a, self._convert_for_reindex(t, axis=o._get_axis_number(a)))
                  for t, a in zip(tup, o._AXIS_ORDERS)])
             return o.reindex(**d)
-        except:
+        except(KeyError, IndexingError):
             raise self._exception
 
     def _convert_for_reindex(self, key, axis=0):