[3.5] Fix a trivial typo in global section (GH-1497) (GH-1881)

(cherry picked from commit f34c6850203a2406c4950af7a9c8a134145df4ea)

diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
index d403c4d546edc16854c6c06c9d02d329636f34db..35c823992aaa6ad7f1678cf0068f31770f1c517c 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ definition, function definition, or :keyword:`import` statement.
    builtin: eval
    builtin: compile
 
-**Programmer's note:** the :keyword:`global` is a directive to the parser.  It
+**Programmer's note:** :keyword:`global` is a directive to the parser.  It
 applies only to code parsed at the same time as the :keyword:`global` statement.
 In particular, a :keyword:`global` statement contained in a string or code
 object supplied to the built-in :func:`exec` function does not affect the code