From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:29:31 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: closes issue28082: doc update and NEWS entry
X-Git-Tag: v3.6.0b4~20
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c88c80b716cecd0aea8467a41668dced9cafe3d5;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

closes issue28082: doc update and NEWS entry
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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index c9f22633750c..218bbf88cf56 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -478,6 +478,9 @@ functions are simplified versions of the full featured methods for compiled
 regular expressions.  Most non-trivial applications always use the compiled
 form.
 
+.. versionchanged:: 3.6
+   Flag constants are now instances of :class:`RegexFlag`, which is a subclass of
+   :class:`enum.IntFlag`.
 
 .. function:: compile(pattern, flags=0)