Commit ed94a8b2 authored by Henk-Jaap Wagenaar's avatar Henk-Jaap Wagenaar Committed by Mariatta

bpo-26656: Improve re.compile documentation (GH-3211)

- Link to the regular expressions object documentation
- Clarify that it can be used with more than the two methods currently stated.
parent 998f4966
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.. function:: compile(pattern, flags=0)
Compile a regular expression pattern into a regular expression object, which
can be used for matching using its :func:`~regex.match` and
:func:`~regex.search` methods, described below.
Compile a regular expression pattern into a :ref:`regular expression object
<re-objects>`, which can be used for matching using its
:func:`~regex.match`, :func:`~regex.search` and other methods, described
below.
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
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