[3.6] Fix a trivial typo in global section (GH-1497) (GH-1880)

(cherry picked from commit f34c6850203a2406c4950af7a9c8a134145df4ea)

diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
index e1cec8794cc0e8ba6ddf3f393271bfe90d62110e..8786d73f68a369ce83d99a783c9bc7d0f98de2a3 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
@@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ annotation.
    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