diff --git a/Lib/re.py b/Lib/re.py
index 69bd1c7e700..9ae51740e4a 100644
--- a/Lib/re.py
+++ b/Lib/re.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
              bytes patterns or string patterns with the ASCII flag.
              In string patterns without the ASCII flag, it will match the whole
              range of Unicode whitespace characters.
-    \S       Matches any non-whitespace character; equiv. to [^ \t\n\r\f\v].
+    \S       Matches any non-whitespace character; equivalent to [^\s].
     \w       Matches any alphanumeric character; equivalent to [a-zA-Z0-9_]
              in bytes patterns or string patterns with the ASCII flag.
              In string patterns without the ASCII flag, it will match the