Extend pytest.raises to support Exception having __repr__ method and …

…initialized with kwargs (pytest-dev#11073) Co-authored-by: Bruno Oliveira <nicoddemus@gmail.com>
symonk · Jul 20, 2023 · 0b4a557 · 0b4a557
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diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Ben Gartner
 Ben Webb
 Benjamin Peterson
 Bernard Pratz
+Bo Wu
 Bob Ippolito
 Brian Dorsey
 Brian Larsen

diff --git a/src/_pytest/python_api.py b/src/_pytest/python_api.py
@@ -812,7 +812,8 @@ def raises(  # noqa: F811
     :kwparam str | typing.Pattern[str] | None match:
         If specified, a string containing a regular expression,
         or a regular expression object, that is tested against the string
-        representation of the exception using :func:`re.search`.
+        representation of the exception and its `PEP-678 <https://peps.python.org/pep-0678/>` `__notes__`
+        using :func:`re.search`.
 
         To match a literal string that may contain :ref:`special characters
         <re-syntax>`, the pattern can first be escaped with :func:`re.escape`.