Merge pull request #12563 from webknjaz/maintenance/hotfixes/note/12264--reraise-with-original-tb

📝🚑 Polish the PR #12264 changelog entry

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -102,6 +102,14 @@ repos:
             )
           $
         files: ^changelog/
+    -   id: changelogs-user-role
+        name: Changelog files should use a non-broken :user:`name` role
+        language: pygrep
+        entry: :user:([^`]+`?|`[^`]+[\s,])
+        pass_filenames: true
+        types:
+          - file
+          - rst
     -   id: py-deprecated
         name: py library is deprecated
         language: pygrep

AUTHORS

@@ -430,6 +430,7 @@ Victor Rodriguez
 Victor Uriarte
 Vidar T. Fauske
 Vijay Arora
+Virendra Patil
 Virgil Dupras
 Vitaly Lashmanov
 Vivaan Verma

changelog/12204.bugfix.rst

@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
-Fix a regression in pytest 8.0 where tracebacks get longer and longer when multiple tests fail due to a shared higher-scope fixture which raised.
+Fixed a regression in pytest 8.0 where tracebacks get longer and longer when multiple
+tests fail due to a shared higher-scope fixture which raised -- by :user:`bluetech`.
 
-Also fix a similar regression in pytest 5.4 for collectors which raise during setup.
+Also fixed a similar regression in pytest 5.4 for collectors which raise during setup.
 
 The fix necessitated internal changes which may affect some plugins:
-- ``FixtureDef.cached_result[2]`` is now a tuple ``(exc, tb)`` instead of ``exc``.
+
-- ``SetupState.stack`` failures are now a tuple ``(exc, tb)`` instead of ``exc``.
+* ``FixtureDef.cached_result[2]`` is now a tuple ``(exc, tb)``
+  instead of ``exc``.
+* ``SetupState.stack`` failures are now a tuple ``(exc, tb)``
+  instead of ``exc``.

changelog/12264.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+12204.bugfix.rst

changelog/12502.contrib.rst

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ the automatically created pull requests and re-open them to trigger the
 CI runs. From now on, they only need to click the `Ready for review`
 button instead.
 
--- by :user:`webknjaz`.
+-- by :user:`webknjaz`

changelog/12505.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Improve handling of invalid regex patterns in :func:`pytest.raises(match=r'...') <pytest.raises>` by providing a clear error message.

changelog/12531.contrib.rst

@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ pytest's own tests marked as expected to fail from the coverage
 report. This has an effect of reducing the influence of flaky
 tests on the resulting number.
 
--- by :user`webknjaz`
+-- by :user:`webknjaz`

changelog/12544.improvement.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-The _in_venv function now detects Python virtual environments by checking
+The ``_in_venv()`` function now detects Python virtual environments by
-for a pyvenv.cfg file, ensuring reliable detection on various platforms.
+checking for a :file:`pyvenv.cfg` file, ensuring reliable detection on
-
+various platforms -- by :user:`zachsnickers`.
--- by :user:`zachsnickers`.

changelog/12545.improvement.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+12544.improvement.rst

changelog/12562.contrib.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Possible typos in using the ``:user:`` RST role is now being linted
+through the pre-commit tool integration -- by :user:`webknjaz`.

src/_pytest/python_api.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from decimal import Decimal
 import math
 from numbers import Complex
 import pprint
+import re
 from types import TracebackType
 from typing import Any
 from typing import Callable
@@ -986,6 +987,14 @@ class RaisesContext(ContextManager[_pytest._code.ExceptionInfo[E]]):
         self.message = message
         self.match_expr = match_expr
         self.excinfo: _pytest._code.ExceptionInfo[E] | None = None
+        if self.match_expr is not None:
+            re_error = None
+            try:
+                re.compile(self.match_expr)
+            except re.error as e:
+                re_error = e
+            if re_error is not None:
+                fail(f"Invalid regex pattern provided to 'match': {re_error}")
 
     def __enter__(self) -> _pytest._code.ExceptionInfo[E]:
         self.excinfo = _pytest._code.ExceptionInfo.for_later()

testing/python/raises.py

@@ -132,6 +132,26 @@ class TestRaises:
         result = pytester.runpytest()
         result.stdout.fnmatch_lines(["*2 failed*"])
 
+    def test_raises_with_invalid_regex(self, pytester: Pytester) -> None:
+        pytester.makepyfile(
+            """
+            import pytest
+
+            def test_invalid_regex():
+                with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="invalid regex character ["):
+                    raise ValueError()
+            """
+        )
+        result = pytester.runpytest()
+        result.stdout.fnmatch_lines(
+            [
+                "*Invalid regex pattern provided to 'match': unterminated character set at position 24*",
+            ]
+        )
+        result.stdout.no_fnmatch_line("*Traceback*")
+        result.stdout.no_fnmatch_line("*File*")
+        result.stdout.no_fnmatch_line("*line*")
+
     def test_noclass(self) -> None:
         with pytest.raises(TypeError):
             pytest.raises("wrong", lambda: None)  # type: ignore[call-overload]