Fix: Indexing with dates of higher resolution should return empty slice instead raising KeyError

Author: suzyahyah

doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst

@@ -971,6 +971,7 @@ Datetimelike
 - Bug in constructing arrays with :class:`ArrowDtype` with ``timestamp`` type incorrectly allowing ``Decimal("NaN")`` (:issue:`61773`)
 - Bug in constructing arrays with a timezone-aware :class:`ArrowDtype` from timezone-naive datetime objects incorrectly treating those as UTC times instead of wall times like :class:`DatetimeTZDtype` (:issue:`61775`)
 - Bug in setting scalar values with mismatched resolution into arrays with non-nanosecond ``datetime64``, ``timedelta64`` or :class:`DatetimeTZDtype` incorrectly truncating those scalars (:issue:`56410`)
+- Bug in :class:`DatetimeIndex` returning KeyError for out of range, failing to return empty slice when the resolution is greater than the current datetime objects. (:issue:`25803`)
 
 Timedelta
 ^^^^^^^^^

pandas/core/indexes/datetimelike.py

@@ -317,15 +317,8 @@ def _partial_date_slice(
         unbox = self._data._unbox
 
         if self.is_monotonic_increasing:
-            if len(self) and (
-                (t1 < self[0] and t2 < self[0]) or (t1 > self[-1] and t2 > self[-1])
-            ):
-                # we are out of range
-                raise KeyError
-
-            # TODO: does this depend on being monotonic _increasing_?
-
-            # a monotonic (sorted) series can be sliced
+            # a monotonic (sorted) series can be searched in ologn
+            # if date is not found, the empty slice will be returned
             left = vals.searchsorted(unbox(t1), side="left")
             right = vals.searchsorted(unbox(t2), side="right")
             return slice(left, right)

pandas/tests/indexes/datetimes/test_partial_slicing.py

@@ -247,8 +247,13 @@ def test_partial_slice_second_precision(self):
         tm.assert_series_equal(s["2005-1-1 00:01:00"], s.iloc[10:])
 
         assert s[Timestamp("2005-1-1 00:00:59.999990")] == s.iloc[0]
-        with pytest.raises(KeyError, match="2005-1-1 00:00:00"):
-            s["2005-1-1 00:00:00"]
+        tm.assert_series_equal(s["2005-1-1 00:00:00"], s.iloc[0:0])
+
+    def test_partial_slice_higher_precision_empty(self):
+        #GH25803
+        s = Series([1, 2, 3], DatetimeIndex(['2018-01-01T01:01', '2018-02-02T01:01', '2018-02-02T02:02']))
+        tm.assert_series_equal(s.loc['2018-03-03'], s.iloc[0:0])
+        assert (s.loc['2018-03-03'].size  == 0)
 
     def test_partial_slicing_dataframe(self):
         # GH14856