Melting with not present column does not produce error

pandas/core/reshape/melt.py

@@ -32,7 +32,11 @@ def melt(frame, id_vars=None, value_vars=None, var_name=None,
             raise ValueError('id_vars must be a list of tuples when columns'
                              ' are a MultiIndex')
         else:
+            # Check that `id_vars` are in frame
             id_vars = list(id_vars)
+            missing = [v for v in id_vars if v not in frame.columns]
+            if missing:
+                raise ValueError(f'Columns {missing} are not in dataframe')
     else:
         id_vars = []
 
@@ -45,6 +49,11 @@ def melt(frame, id_vars=None, value_vars=None, var_name=None,
                              ' columns are a MultiIndex')
         else:
             value_vars = list(value_vars)
+            # Check that `value_vars` are in frame
+            missing = [v for v in value_vars if v not in frame.columns]
+            if missing:
+                # missing_vars = str(missing)
+                raise ValueError(f'Columns {missing} are not in dataframe')
         frame = frame.loc[:, id_vars + value_vars]
     else:
         frame = frame.copy()