Merge pull request #4258 from pecey/tmp/issue-4255

Fixes #4255 by adding to the doc that module names are not regex-escaped
pytest-dev · Oct 28, 2018 · e6e40db · e6e40db
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diff --git a/changelog/4255.doc.rst b/changelog/4255.doc.rst
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+Added missing documentation about the fact that module names passed to filter warnings are not regex-escaped.
diff --git a/doc/en/reference.rst b/doc/en/reference.rst
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ Add warning filters to marked test items.
         A *warning specification string*, which is composed of contents of the tuple ``(action, message, category, module, lineno)``
         as specified in `The Warnings filter <https://docs.python.org/3/library/warnings.html#warning-filter>`_ section of
         the Python documentation, separated by ``":"``. Optional fields can be omitted.
+        Module names passed for filtering are not regex-escaped.
 
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