From a2f6f7dd26128b834c6e66fe1ceac3ac751143f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:03:49 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] gh-111259: Document idiomatic RE pattern (?s:.) that matches
 any character (GH-120745)

---
 Doc/library/re.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index bce36660afcada..cc979fe66f7fe9 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ The special characters are:
 ``.``
    (Dot.)  In the default mode, this matches any character except a newline.  If
    the :const:`DOTALL` flag has been specified, this matches any character
-   including a newline.
+   including a newline.  ``(?s:.)`` matches any character regardless of flags.
 
 .. index:: single: ^ (caret); in regular expressions