diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2ebf8a32b..b9e64fffd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@
 
 ## Bug Fixes
 - #918 Activate validation for GPU_CI tests results.
-- #975 Fixed issue due to cudf orc api change 
+- #975 Fixed issue due to cudf orc api change
 - #1017 Fixed issue parsing fixed with string literals
-- #1019 Fix hive string col 
+- #1019 Fix hive string col
 - #1021 removed an rmm include
 - #1020 Fixed build issues with latest rmm 0.16 and columnBasisTest due to deprecated drop_column() function
 - #1029 Fix metadata mistmatch due to parsedMetadata
@@ -27,13 +27,14 @@
 - #1030 Avoid read _metadata files
 - #1039 Fixed issues with parsers, in particular ORC parser was misbehaving
 - #1038 Fixed issue with logging dirs in distributed envs
-- #1048 Pinned google cloud version to 1.16 
+- #1048 Pinned google cloud version to 1.16
 - #1052 Partial revert of some changes on parquet rowgroups flow with local_files=True
 - #1054 Can set manually BLAZING_CHACHE_DIRECTORY
 - #1053 Fixed issue when loading paths with wildcards
 - #1057 Fixed issue with concat all in concatenating cache
 - #1007 Fix arrow and spdlog compilation issues
 - #1068 Just adds a docs important links and avoid the message about filesystem authority not found
+- #1073 Fixed parseSchemaPython can throw exceptions
 - #1074: Remove lock inside grow() method from PinnedBufferProvider
 - #1071 Fix crash when loading an empty folder
 
@@ -73,9 +74,9 @@
 - #936 Adding extern C for include files
 - #941 Logging level (flush_on) can be configurable
 - #947 Use default client and network interface from Dask
-- #945 Added new separate thresh for concat cache 
+- #945 Added new separate thresh for concat cache
 - #939 Add unit test for Project kernel
-- #949 Implemented using threadpool for outgoing messages 
+- #949 Implemented using threadpool for outgoing messages
 - #961 Add list_tables() and describe_table() functions
 - #967 Add bc.get_free_memory() function
 
@@ -111,7 +112,7 @@
 - #927 Fixed random segfault issue in parser
 - #929 Update the GPUManager functions
 - #942 Fix column names on sample function
-- #950 Introducing config param for max orderby samples and fixing oversampling 
+- #950 Introducing config param for max orderby samples and fixing oversampling
 - #952 Dummy PR
 - #957 Fixed issues caused by changes to timespamp in cudf
 - #962 Use new rmm API instead of get_device_resource() and set_device_resource() functions
diff --git a/engine/bsql_engine/io/io.pyx b/engine/bsql_engine/io/io.pyx
index f315bfb17..0349174dc 100644
--- a/engine/bsql_engine/io/io.pyx
+++ b/engine/bsql_engine/io/io.pyx
@@ -90,10 +90,9 @@ class RegisterFileSystemLocalError(BlazingError):
     """RegisterFileSystemLocal Error."""
 cdef public PyObject * RegisterFileSystemLocalError_ = <PyObject *>RegisterFileSystemLocalError
 
-cdef cio.TableSchema parseSchemaPython(vector[string] files, string file_format_hint, vector[string] arg_keys, vector[string] arg_values,vector[pair[string,type_id]] extra_columns, bool ignore_missing_paths) nogil:
+cdef cio.TableSchema parseSchemaPython(vector[string] files, string file_format_hint, vector[string] arg_keys, vector[string] arg_values,vector[pair[string,type_id]] extra_columns, bool ignore_missing_paths) nogil except *:
     with nogil:
-        temp = cio.parseSchema(files,file_format_hint,arg_keys,arg_values,extra_columns, ignore_missing_paths)
-    return temp
+        return cio.parseSchema(files,file_format_hint,arg_keys,arg_values,extra_columns, ignore_missing_paths)
 
 cdef unique_ptr[cio.ResultSet] parseMetadataPython(vector[string] files, pair[int,int] offset, cio.TableSchema schema, string file_format_hint, vector[string] arg_keys, vector[string] arg_values) nogil:
     with nogil: