diff --git a/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst
index 85ac4849653..3298fc85501 100644
--- a/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ 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'>