API: change default in to_datetime for errors to 'raise' · Issue #10636 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

xref #8894
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The idea is that if you have completely unparseable dates with or w/o a format specified, then the default will be to raise. Further, since coerce is by default False. You will get an immediate exception rather than have strings returned.

I think some tests will need to be adjusted and a simple example for the user in the whatsnew.