Accept generic ExceptionGroups for raises

Closes pytest-dev#13115

AUTHORS

@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ Tim Hoffmann
 Tim Strazny
 TJ Bruno
 Tobias Diez
+Tobias Petersen
 Tom Dalton
 Tom Viner
 Tomáš Gavenčiak

changelog/13115.improvement.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Allows supplying ``ExceptionGroup[Exception]`` and ``BaseExceptionGroup[BaseException]`` to ``pytest.raises`` to keep full typing on ExcInfo.

src/_pytest/python_api.py

@@ -12,10 +12,13 @@
 from numbers import Complex
 import pprint
 import re
+import sys
 from types import TracebackType
 from typing import Any
 from typing import cast
 from typing import final
+from typing import get_args
+from typing import get_origin
 from typing import overload
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 from typing import TypeVar
@@ -24,6 +27,10 @@
 from _pytest.outcomes import fail
 
 
+if sys.version_info < (3, 11):
+    from exceptiongroup import BaseExceptionGroup
+    from exceptiongroup import ExceptionGroup
+
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from numpy import ndarray
 
@@ -954,15 +961,43 @@ def raises(
             f"Raising exceptions is already understood as failing the test, so you don't need "
             f"any special code to say 'this should never raise an exception'."
         )
+
+    expected_exceptions: tuple[type[E], ...]
+    origin_exc: type[E] | None = get_origin(expected_exception)
     if isinstance(expected_exception, type):
-        expected_exceptions: tuple[type[E], ...] = (expected_exception,)
+        expected_exceptions = (expected_exception,)
+    elif origin_exc and issubclass(origin_exc, BaseExceptionGroup):
+        expected_exceptions = (cast(type[E], expected_exception),)
     else:
         expected_exceptions = expected_exception
-    for exc in expected_exceptions:
-        if not isinstance(exc, type) or not issubclass(exc, BaseException):
+
+    def validate_exc(exc: type[E]) -> type[E]:
+        origin_exc: type[E] | None = get_origin(exc)
+        if origin_exc and issubclass(origin_exc, BaseExceptionGroup):
+            exc_type = get_args(exc)[0]
+            if issubclass(origin_exc, ExceptionGroup) and exc_type is Exception:
+                return cast(type[E], origin_exc)
+            elif (
+                issubclass(origin_exc, BaseExceptionGroup) and exc_type is BaseException
+            ):
+                return cast(type[E], origin_exc)
+            else:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"Only `ExceptionGroup[Exception]` or `BaseExceptionGroup[BaseExeption]` "
+                    f"are accepted as generic types but got `{exc}`. "
+                    f"As `raises` will catch all instances of the specified group regardless of the "
+                    f"generic argument specific nested exceptions has to be checked "
+                    f"with `ExceptionInfo.group_contains()`"
+                )
+
+        elif not isinstance(exc, type) or not issubclass(exc, BaseException):
             msg = "expected exception must be a BaseException type, not {}"  # type: ignore[unreachable]
             not_a = exc.__name__ if isinstance(exc, type) else type(exc).__name__
             raise TypeError(msg.format(not_a))
+        else:
+            return exc
+
+    expected_exceptions = tuple(validate_exc(exc) for exc in expected_exceptions)
 
     message = f"DID NOT RAISE {expected_exception}"
 
@@ -973,14 +1008,14 @@ def raises(
             msg += ", ".join(sorted(kwargs))
             msg += "\nUse context-manager form instead?"
             raise TypeError(msg)
-        return RaisesContext(expected_exception, message, match)
+        return RaisesContext(expected_exceptions, message, match)
     else:
         func = args[0]
         if not callable(func):
             raise TypeError(f"{func!r} object (type: {type(func)}) must be callable")
         try:
             func(*args[1:], **kwargs)
-        except expected_exception as e:
+        except expected_exceptions as e:
             return _pytest._code.ExceptionInfo.from_exception(e)
     fail(message)
 

testing/code/test_excinfo.py

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
     from _pytest._code.code import TracebackStyle
 
 if sys.version_info < (3, 11):
+    from exceptiongroup import BaseExceptionGroup
     from exceptiongroup import ExceptionGroup
 
 
@@ -453,6 +454,32 @@ def test_division_zero():
     result.stdout.re_match_lines([r".*__tracebackhide__ = True.*", *match])
 
 
+def test_raises_accepts_generic_group() -> None:
+    exc_group = ExceptionGroup("", [RuntimeError()])
+    with pytest.raises(ExceptionGroup[Exception]) as exc_info:
+        raise exc_group
+    assert exc_info.group_contains(RuntimeError)
+
+
+def test_raises_accepts_generic_base_group() -> None:
+    exc_group = ExceptionGroup("", [RuntimeError()])
+    with pytest.raises(BaseExceptionGroup[BaseException]) as exc_info:
+        raise exc_group
+    assert exc_info.group_contains(RuntimeError)
+
+
+def test_raises_rejects_specific_generic_group() -> None:
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        pytest.raises(ExceptionGroup[RuntimeError])
+
+
+def test_raises_accepts_generic_group_in_tuple() -> None:
+    exc_group = ExceptionGroup("", [RuntimeError()])
+    with pytest.raises((ValueError, ExceptionGroup[Exception])) as exc_info:
+        raise exc_group
+    assert exc_info.group_contains(RuntimeError)
+
+
 class TestGroupContains:
     def test_contains_exception_type(self) -> None:
         exc_group = ExceptionGroup("", [RuntimeError()])