Reference to flag variables broken in re.compile() documentation

[dhgutteridge]

Documentation

The #93000 change set inadvertently caused a sentence in re.compile() documentation to no longer make sense. It says "Values can be any of the following variables..." (

cpython/Doc/library/re.rst

Line 883 in 681e9e8

Values can be any of the following variables, combined using bitwise OR (the

), but there are no following variables documented anymore, since they were moved to a different sub-subsection above. (This is a docs regression in 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12.) This is, of course, quite trivial to fix, and I'll be submitting a PR shortly to do so.

Linked PRs

• gh-114332: fix flags reference for re.compile() docs #114334
• [3.12] gh-114332: Fix the flags reference for re.compile() (GH-114334) #114339
• [3.11] gh-114332: Fix the flags reference for re.compile() (GH-114334) #114340