re: Odd text referring to flags in re.compile

[Ymiros0]

Documentation

I haven't had time to check the history, but it seems to me that flags used to be placed inside the functions section, perhaps even inside re.compile and have later been granted their own section in Module Contents, but their mention in re.compile has survived this move, so it now says "The expression’s behaviour can be modified by specifying a flags value. Values can be any of the following variables, combined using bitwise OR (the | operator)." and then nothing follows.
On the other hand in the Flags section of the documentation there is not a single mention of how to use more than one flag at once.

• https://docs.python.org/dev/library/re.html#re.compile

[iritkatriel]

To avoid misunderstandings, could you post a link to the doc (ideally the section of the doc) that you are referring to?

[jesse-sealand]

Here is a link to the section @Ymiros0 is referring to.

cpython/Doc/library/re.rst

Line 831 in 607f18c

The expression's behaviour can be modified by specifying a *flags* value.