catch arrowinvalid and keep raising runtimeerror

Author: MarcoGorelli

pandas/core/interchange/from_dataframe.py

@@ -99,7 +99,10 @@ def from_dataframe(df, allow_copy: bool = True) -> pd.DataFrame:
             # fallback to _from_dataframe
             pass
         else:
-            return pa.table(df).to_pandas(zero_copy_only=not allow_copy)
+            try:
+                return pa.table(df).to_pandas(zero_copy_only=not allow_copy)
+            except pa.ArrowInvalid as e:
+                raise RuntimeError(e) from e
 
     if not hasattr(df, "__dataframe__"):
         raise ValueError("`df` does not support __dataframe__")

pandas/tests/interchange/test_impl.py

@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ def test_multi_chunk_pyarrow() -> None:
     names = ["n_legs"]
     table = pa.table([n_legs], names=names)
     with pytest.raises(
-        pa.ArrowInvalid,
+        RuntimeError,
         match="Cannot do zero copy conversion into multi-column DataFrame block",
     ):
         pd.api.interchange.from_dataframe(table, allow_copy=False)