def test_invalid_scalar_index(adata, index):
    # https://github.com/theislab/anndata/issues/619
    with pytest.raises(IndexError, match=r".*index.* out of range\."):
        _ = adata[index]
def get_date(self, p_tag):
        """ Given a date tag, return a date object. """
        string = self.tag_value(p_tag)
        result = None

        try:
            result = date_string_to_date(string) if string else None
        except ValueError:
            pass

        return result