index and items switched in series error message

[clarkfitzg]

Running this code:

pd.Series([1, 2], index=[1, 2, 3, 4, 5])

Raises this value error:

ValueError: Wrong number of items passed 5, indices imply 2

I expected to see this:

ValueError: Wrong number of items passed 2, index implies 5

Comparing my traceback with the current code it looks like an easy fix- just switch the order of the tuple in line 65 of core/internals.py

Using Anaconda distribution:

In [6]: show_versions()

INSTALLED VERSIONS
------------------
Python: 2.7.6.final.0
OS: Darwin
Release: 13.1.0
Processor: i386
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: None
LANG: en_US.UTF-8

pandas: 0.13.0
Cython: 0.20
Numpy: 1.8.0
Scipy: 0.13.3
statsmodels: 0.5.0
    patsy: 0.2.1
scikits.timeseries: Not installed
dateutil: 1.5
pytz: 2013b
bottleneck: Not installed
PyTables: 3.1.0
    numexpr: 2.3
matplotlib: 1.3.1
//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openpyxl/__init__.py:31: UserWarning: The installed version of lxml is too old to be used with openpyxl
  warnings.warn("The installed version of lxml is too old to be used with openpyxl")
openpyxl: 1.8.2
xlrd: 0.9.2
xlwt: 0.7.5
xlsxwriter: Not installed
sqlalchemy: 0.9.2
lxml: 3.2.3
bs4: 4.3.1
html5lib: Not installed
bigquery: Not installed
apiclient: Not installed

[jreback]

@clarkfitzg sure....pls do a PR, note that some tests should fail if you make this change (so you have to reverse check in the test too), they are checking the text of the error message

[hayd]

@jreback hmmm tests passed even without changing the text.

[jreback]

tests are only on frames so this is ok