diff --git a/testing/test_skipping.py b/testing/test_skipping.py
index bba36421ace..a2ab684ebd6 100644
--- a/testing/test_skipping.py
+++ b/testing/test_skipping.py
@@ -876,7 +876,8 @@ def test_hello():
         result = pytester.runpytest()
         result.stdout.fnmatch_lines(
             [
-                "*TypeError: __init__() got multiple values for argument 'reason' - maybe you meant pytest.mark.skipif?"
+                "*TypeError: *.__init__() got multiple values for argument 'reason'"
+                " - maybe you meant pytest.mark.skipif?"
             ]
         )