diff -r 3e16c8c34e69 Doc/howto/regex.rst
--- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst	Sat Nov 23 21:19:43 2013 +0100
+++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst	Mon Nov 25 22:33:10 2013 +0200
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
    >>> import re
    >>> p = re.compile('ab*')
    >>> p  #doctest: +ELLIPSIS
-   <_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x...>
+   re.compile('ab*')
 
 :func:`re.compile` also accepts an optional *flags* argument, used to enable
 various special features and syntax variations.  We'll go over the available
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@
    >>> import re
    >>> p = re.compile('[a-z]+')
    >>> p  #doctest: +ELLIPSIS
-   <_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x...>
+   re.compile('[a-z]+')
 
 Now, you can try matching various strings against the RE ``[a-z]+``.  An empty
 string shouldn't match at all, since ``+`` means 'one or more repetitions'.