Closes #16936: fix duplicate/ambiguous description of stat.S_IFMT in the docs.

diff --git a/Doc/library/stat.rst b/Doc/library/stat.rst
index 6b0e1b42ab54cc5e66b928803670ace7431a1319..96f437cb3f46abda7cd02b90dbb981c330bcd256 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/stat.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stat.rst
@@ -171,10 +171,6 @@ The variables below define the flags used in the :data:`ST_MODE` field.
 
 Use of the functions above is more portable than use of the first set of flags:
 
-.. data:: S_IFMT
-
-   Bit mask for the file type bit fields.
-
 .. data:: S_IFSOCK
 
    Socket.