Add new `ExceptionInfo.group_contains` assertion helper method

Tests if a captured exception group contains an expected exception.
Will raise `AssertionError` if the wrapped exception is not an exception group.
Supports recursive search into nested exception groups.

AUTHORS

@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ Michal Wajszczuk
 Michał Zięba
 Mickey Pashov
 Mihai Capotă
+Mihail Milushev
 Mike Hoyle (hoylemd)
 Mike Lundy
 Milan Lesnek

changelog/10441.feature.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Added :func:`ExceptionInfo.group_contains() <pytest.ExceptionInfo.group_contains>`, an assertion
+helper that tests if an `ExceptionGroup` contains a matching exception.

src/_pytest/_code/code.py

@@ -697,6 +697,14 @@ class ExceptionInfo(Generic[E]):
         )
         return fmt.repr_excinfo(self)
 
+    def _stringify_exception(self, exc: BaseException) -> str:
+        return "\n".join(
+            [
+                str(exc),
+                *getattr(exc, "__notes__", []),
+            ]
+        )
+
     def match(self, regexp: Union[str, Pattern[str]]) -> "Literal[True]":
         """Check whether the regular expression `regexp` matches the string
         representation of the exception using :func:`python:re.search`.
@@ -704,12 +712,7 @@ class ExceptionInfo(Generic[E]):
         If it matches `True` is returned, otherwise an `AssertionError` is raised.
         """
         __tracebackhide__ = True
-        value = "\n".join(
-            [
-                str(self.value),
-                *getattr(self.value, "__notes__", []),
-            ]
-        )
+        value = self._stringify_exception(self.value)
         msg = f"Regex pattern did not match.\n Regex: {regexp!r}\n Input: {value!r}"
         if regexp == value:
             msg += "\n Did you mean to `re.escape()` the regex?"
@@ -717,6 +720,56 @@ class ExceptionInfo(Generic[E]):
         # Return True to allow for "assert excinfo.match()".
         return True
 
+    def _group_contains(
+        self,
+        exc_group: BaseExceptionGroup[BaseException],
+        expected_exception: Union[Type[BaseException], Tuple[Type[BaseException], ...]],
+        match: Union[str, Pattern[str], None],
+        recursive: bool = False,
+    ) -> bool:
+        """Return `True` if a `BaseExceptionGroup` contains a matching exception."""
+        for exc in exc_group.exceptions:
+            if recursive and isinstance(exc, BaseExceptionGroup):
+                if self._group_contains(exc, expected_exception, match, recursive):
+                    return True
+            if not isinstance(exc, expected_exception):
+                continue
+            if match is not None:
+                value = self._stringify_exception(exc)
+                if not re.search(match, value):
+                    continue
+            return True
+        return False
+
+    def group_contains(
+        self,
+        expected_exception: Union[Type[BaseException], Tuple[Type[BaseException], ...]],
+        match: Union[str, Pattern[str], None] = None,
+        recursive: bool = False,
+    ) -> bool:
+        """Check whether a captured exception group contains a matching exception.
+
+        :param Type[BaseException] | Tuple[Type[BaseException]] expected_exception:
+            The expected exception type, or a tuple if one of multiple possible
+            exception types are expected.
+
+        :param str | 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 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`.
+
+        :param bool recursive:
+            If `True`, search will descend recursively into any nested exception groups.
+            If `False`, only the top exception group will be searched.
+        """
+        msg = "Captured exception is not an instance of `BaseExceptionGroup`"
+        assert isinstance(self.value, BaseExceptionGroup), msg
+        return self._group_contains(self.value, expected_exception, match, recursive)
+
 
 @dataclasses.dataclass
 class FormattedExcinfo:

testing/code/test_excinfo.py

@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ from _pytest.pytester import Pytester
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from _pytest._code.code import _TracebackStyle
 
+if sys.version_info[:2] < (3, 11):
+    from exceptiongroup import ExceptionGroup
+
 
 @pytest.fixture
 def limited_recursion_depth():
@@ -444,6 +447,62 @@ def test_match_raises_error(pytester: Pytester) -> None:
     result.stdout.re_match_lines([r".*__tracebackhide__ = True.*", *match])
 
 
+class TestGroupContains:
+    def test_contains_exception_type(self) -> None:
+        exc_group = ExceptionGroup("", [RuntimeError()])
+        with pytest.raises(ExceptionGroup) as exc_info:
+            raise exc_group
+        assert exc_info.group_contains(RuntimeError)
+
+    def test_doesnt_contain_exception_type(self) -> None:
+        exc_group = ExceptionGroup("", [ValueError()])
+        with pytest.raises(ExceptionGroup) as exc_info:
+            raise exc_group
+        assert not exc_info.group_contains(RuntimeError)
+
+    def test_contains_exception_match(self) -> None:
+        exc_group = ExceptionGroup("", [RuntimeError("exception message")])
+        with pytest.raises(ExceptionGroup) as exc_info:
+            raise exc_group
+        assert exc_info.group_contains(RuntimeError, match=r"^exception message$")
+
+    def test_doesnt_contain_exception_match(self) -> None:
+        exc_group = ExceptionGroup("", [RuntimeError("message that will not match")])
+        with pytest.raises(ExceptionGroup) as exc_info:
+            raise exc_group
+        assert not exc_info.group_contains(RuntimeError, match=r"^exception message$")
+
+    def test_contains_exception_type_recursive(self) -> None:
+        exc_group = ExceptionGroup("", [ExceptionGroup("", [RuntimeError()])])
+        with pytest.raises(ExceptionGroup) as exc_info:
+            raise exc_group
+        assert exc_info.group_contains(RuntimeError, recursive=True)
+
+    def test_doesnt_contain_exception_type_nonrecursive(self) -> None:
+        exc_group = ExceptionGroup("", [ExceptionGroup("", [RuntimeError()])])
+        with pytest.raises(ExceptionGroup) as exc_info:
+            raise exc_group
+        assert not exc_info.group_contains(RuntimeError)
+
+    def test_contains_exception_match_recursive(self) -> None:
+        exc_group = ExceptionGroup(
+            "", [ExceptionGroup("", [RuntimeError("exception message")])]
+        )
+        with pytest.raises(ExceptionGroup) as exc_info:
+            raise exc_group
+        assert exc_info.group_contains(
+            RuntimeError, match=r"^exception message$", recursive=True
+        )
+
+    def test_doesnt_contain_exception_match_nonrecursive(self) -> None:
+        exc_group = ExceptionGroup(
+            "", [ExceptionGroup("", [RuntimeError("message that will not match")])]
+        )
+        with pytest.raises(ExceptionGroup) as exc_info:
+            raise exc_group
+        assert not exc_info.group_contains(RuntimeError, match=r"^exception message$")
+
+
 class TestFormattedExcinfo:
     @pytest.fixture
     def importasmod(self, tmp_path: Path, _sys_snapshot):