Clarify docs for match regarding escaping (#10695)

Add example using `re.escape` to escape arbitrary literal strings which might contain regular expression characters like `.` or `)`.

Closes #10595

Author: vin01

doc/en/how-to/capture-warnings.rst

@@ -270,20 +270,34 @@ which works in a similar manner to :ref:`raises <assertraises>` (except that
             warnings.warn("my warning", UserWarning)
 
 The test will fail if the warning in question is not raised. Use the keyword
-argument ``match`` to assert that the warning matches a text or regex::
+argument ``match`` to assert that the warning matches a text or regex.
+To match a literal string that may contain regular expression metacharacters like ``(`` or ``.``, the pattern can
+first be escaped with ``re.escape``.
 
-    >>> with warns(UserWarning, match='must be 0 or None'):
+Some examples:
+
+.. code-block:: pycon
+
+
+    >>> with warns(UserWarning, match="must be 0 or None"):
     ...     warnings.warn("value must be 0 or None", UserWarning)
+    ...
 
-    >>> with warns(UserWarning, match=r'must be \d+$'):
+    >>> with warns(UserWarning, match=r"must be \d+$"):
     ...     warnings.warn("value must be 42", UserWarning)
+    ...
 
-    >>> with warns(UserWarning, match=r'must be \d+$'):
+    >>> with warns(UserWarning, match=r"must be \d+$"):
     ...     warnings.warn("this is not here", UserWarning)
+    ...
     Traceback (most recent call last):
       ...
     Failed: DID NOT WARN. No warnings of type ...UserWarning... were emitted...
 
+    >>> with warns(UserWarning, match=re.escape("issue with foo() func")):
+    ...     warnings.warn("issue with foo() func")
+    ...
+
 You can also call :func:`pytest.warns` on a function or code string:
 
 .. code-block:: python