diff -r 27edae50e62c Doc/library/fnmatch.rst
--- a/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst	Sun Oct 09 20:19:21 2016 -0700
+++ b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst	Sun Oct 16 15:52:18 2016 +0300
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ patterns.
 
 .. function:: translate(pattern)
 
-   Return the shell-style *pattern* converted to a regular expression.
+   Return the shell-style *pattern* converted to a regular expression for
+   using with :func:`re.match`.
 
    Example:
 
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ patterns.
       >>>
       >>> regex = fnmatch.translate('*.txt')
       >>> regex
-      '.*\\.txt\\Z(?ms)'
+      '(?s:.*\\.txt)\\Z'
       >>> reobj = re.compile(regex)
       >>> reobj.match('foobar.txt')
       <_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 10), match='foobar.txt'>