improve raisesgroup code coverage

src/_pytest/_code/code.py

@@ -470,7 +470,8 @@ def stringify_exception(
         HTTPError = getattr(sys.modules.get("urllib.error", None), "HTTPError", ())
         if sys.version_info < (3, 12) and isinstance(exc, HTTPError):
             notes = []
-        else:
+        else:  # pragma: no cover
+            # exception not related to above bug, reraise
             raise
     if not include_subexception_msg and isinstance(exc, BaseExceptionGroup):
         message = exc.message

src/_pytest/raises_group.py

@@ -213,7 +213,6 @@ def _parse_exc(
                     self.is_baseexception = True
                 return cast(type[BaseExcT_1], origin_exc)
             else:
-                # I kinda think this should be a TypeError...
                 raise ValueError(
                     f"Only `ExceptionGroup[Exception]` or `BaseExceptionGroup[BaseExeption]` "
                     f"are accepted as generic types but got `{exc}`. "
@@ -424,11 +423,6 @@ def __enter__(self) -> ExceptionInfo[BaseExcT_co_default]:
         self.excinfo: ExceptionInfo[BaseExcT_co_default] = ExceptionInfo.for_later()
         return self.excinfo
 
-    def expected_type(self) -> str:
-        if self.expected_exceptions == ():
-            return "BaseException"
-        return _exception_type_name(self.expected_exceptions)
-
     # TODO: move common code into superclass
     def __exit__(
         self,

testing/python/raises.py

@@ -36,6 +36,19 @@ def test_raises_does_not_allow_none(self):
             # so we can ignore Mypy telling us that None is invalid.
             pytest.raises(expected_exception=None)  # type: ignore
 
+    # it's unclear if this message is helpful, and if it is, should it trigger more
+    # liberally? Usually you'd get a TypeError here
+    def test_raises_false_and_arg(self):
+        with pytest.raises(
+            ValueError,
+            match=wrap_escape(
+                "Expected an exception type or a tuple of exception types, but got `False`. "
+                "Raising exceptions is already understood as failing the test, so you don't need "
+                "any special code to say 'this should never raise an exception'."
+            ),
+        ):
+            pytest.raises(False, int)  # type: ignore[call-overload]
+
     def test_raises_does_not_allow_empty_tuple(self):
         with pytest.raises(
             ValueError,
@@ -219,7 +232,7 @@ def __call__(self):
         elif method == "with_group":
             with pytest.RaisesGroup(ValueError, allow_unwrapped=True):
                 t()
-        else:
+        else:  # pragma: no cover
             raise AssertionError("bad parametrization")
 
         # ensure both forms of pytest.raises don't leave exceptions in sys.exc_info()
@@ -337,10 +350,15 @@ def __class__(self):
     def test_raises_context_manager_with_kwargs(self):
         with pytest.raises(expected_exception=ValueError):
             raise ValueError
-        with pytest.raises(TypeError) as excinfo:
+        with pytest.raises(
+            TypeError,
+            match=wrap_escape(
+                "Unexpected keyword arguments passed to pytest.raises: foo\n"
+                "Use context-manager form instead?"
+            ),
+        ):
             with pytest.raises(OSError, foo="bar"):  # type: ignore[call-overload]
                 pass
-        assert "Unexpected keyword arguments" in str(excinfo.value)
 
     def test_expected_exception_is_not_a_baseexception(self) -> None:
         with pytest.raises(TypeError) as excinfo:

testing/python/raises_group.py

@@ -458,12 +458,16 @@ def my_check(e: object) -> bool:  # pragma: no cover
         assert RaisesGroup(ValueError, match="bar").matches(exc.value)
 
 
-def test_RaisesGroup_matches() -> None:
+def test_matches() -> None:
     rg = RaisesGroup(ValueError)
     assert not rg.matches(None)
     assert not rg.matches(ValueError())
     assert rg.matches(ExceptionGroup("", (ValueError(),)))
 
+    re = RaisesExc(ValueError)
+    assert not re.matches(None)
+    assert re.matches(ValueError())
+
 
 def test_message() -> None:
     def check_message(
@@ -884,11 +888,13 @@ def test_assert_message_nested() -> None:
         )
 
 
+# CI always runs with hypothesis, but this is not a critical test - it overlaps
+# with several others
 @pytest.mark.skipif(
     "hypothesis" in sys.modules,
     reason="hypothesis may have monkeypatched _check_repr",
 )
-def test_check_no_patched_repr() -> None:
+def test_check_no_patched_repr() -> None:  # pragma: no cover
     # We make `_check_repr` monkeypatchable to avoid this very ugly and verbose
     # repr. The other tests that use `check` make use of `_check_repr` so they'll
     # continue passing in case it is patched - but we have this one test that
@@ -1288,15 +1294,20 @@ def test_parametrizing_conditional_raisesgroup(
 def test_annotated_group() -> None:
     # repr depends on if exceptiongroup backport is being used or not
     t = repr(ExceptionGroup[ValueError])
-    fail_msg = wrap_escape(
-        f"Only `ExceptionGroup[Exception]` or `BaseExceptionGroup[BaseExeption]` are accepted as generic types but got `{t}`. As `raises` will catch all instances of the specified group regardless of the generic argument specific nested exceptions has to be checked with `RaisesGroup`."
-    )
+    msg = "Only `ExceptionGroup[Exception]` or `BaseExceptionGroup[BaseExeption]` are accepted as generic types but got `{}`. As `raises` will catch all instances of the specified group regardless of the generic argument specific nested exceptions has to be checked with `RaisesGroup`."
+
+    fail_msg = wrap_escape(msg.format(t))
     with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=fail_msg):
-        with RaisesGroup(ExceptionGroup[ValueError]):
-            ...  # pragma: no cover
+        RaisesGroup(ExceptionGroup[ValueError])
     with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=fail_msg):
-        with RaisesExc(ExceptionGroup[ValueError]):
-            ...  # pragma: no cover
+        RaisesExc(ExceptionGroup[ValueError])
+    with pytest.raises(
+        ValueError,
+        match=wrap_escape(msg.format(repr(BaseExceptionGroup[KeyboardInterrupt]))),
+    ):
+        with RaisesExc(BaseExceptionGroup[KeyboardInterrupt]):
+            raise BaseExceptionGroup("", [KeyboardInterrupt()])
+
     with RaisesGroup(ExceptionGroup[Exception]):
         raise ExceptionGroup(
             "", [ExceptionGroup("", [ValueError(), ValueError(), ValueError()])]