clean CategoricalIndex.get_loc and improve error message #23091
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This is an offspring from #21699 to do the a cleanup in a contained PR.
self.categories.get_loc(key)
can never return -1, so theif (codes == -1): raise KeyError(key)
is unnecessary. Instead, if key is not in self.categories, a KeyError is raised straight away.A slightly confusing issue is that if the key is found in categories, but the code is not found in self._engine, the code is shown in the KeyError message. It would probably be more intuitive that the key would be shown:
As the error type is unchanged, does this change warrant a whatsnew entry?