[3.12] gh-114332: Fix the flags reference for re.compile() (GH-114334) (#114339)

miss-islington · dhgutteridge · AA-Turner · web-flow · commit 7a56df126664 · 2024-01-20T11:23:37.000Z
gh-114332: Fix the flags reference for ``re.compile()`` (GH-114334) The GH-93000 change set inadvertently caused a sentence in re.compile() documentation to refer to details that no longer followed. Correct this with a link to the Flags sub-subsection. (cherry picked from commit 567a85e) Co-authored-by: David H. Gutteridge <dhgutteridge@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+aa-turner@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -880,8 +880,8 @@ Functions
    below.
 
    The expression's behaviour can be modified by specifying a *flags* value.
-   Values can be any of the following variables, combined using bitwise OR (the
-   ``|`` operator).
+   Values can be any of the `flags`_ variables, combined using bitwise OR
+   (the ``|`` operator).
 
    The sequence ::
 
