Clarify rx parameter of compileall functions (GH-25857)

(cherry picked from commit 09490298d4485e9322edc6e1e8e15eb66c586164)

Co-authored-by: Jean-Abou-Samra <37271310+Jean-Abou-Samra@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/compileall.rst b/Doc/library/compileall.rst
index 5c6e68f93047537085ec0265fc5e0bd16c3c158d..de34664acb84ab7d815c8525f918fe748ac6f21b 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/compileall.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/compileall.rst
@@ -166,9 +166,10 @@ Public functions
    If *force* is true, modules are re-compiled even if the timestamps are up to
    date.
 
-   If *rx* is given, its search method is called on the complete path to each
+   If *rx* is given, its ``search`` method is called on the complete path to each
    file considered for compilation, and if it returns a true value, the file
-   is skipped.
+   is skipped. This can be used to exclude files matching a regular expression,
+   given as a :ref:`re.Pattern <re-objects>` object.
 
    If *quiet* is ``False`` or ``0`` (the default), the filenames and other
    information are printed to standard out. Set to ``1``, only errors are
@@ -242,9 +243,10 @@ Public functions
    cases where the source file does not exist at the time the byte-code file is
    executed.
 
-   If *rx* is given, its search method is passed the full path name to the
+   If *rx* is given, its ``search`` method is passed the full path name to the
    file being compiled, and if it returns a true value, the file is not
-   compiled and ``True`` is returned.
+   compiled and ``True`` is returned. This can be used to exclude files matching
+   a regular expression, given as a :ref:`re.Pattern <re-objects>` object.
 
    If *quiet* is ``False`` or ``0`` (the default), the filenames and other
    information are printed to standard out. Set to ``1``, only errors are