Fix documentation of pytest.raises(match=...)

2019-05-19 15:56:19 +02:00
parent ee52a8a5f8
commit b27e40cbf1
2 changed files with 6 additions and 5 deletions
--- a/src/_pytest/python_api.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/python_api.py
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ def raises(expected_exception, *args, **kwargs):

    :kwparam 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 ``re.match``. To match a literal
+        representation of the exception using ``re.search``. To match a literal
        string that may contain `special characters`__, the pattern can
        first be escaped with ``re.escape``.