From: Mariatta <Mariatta@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 15:44:16 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: bpo-22594: Add a link to the regex module in re documentation (GH-241) (GH-316)
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bpo-22594: Add a link to the regex module in re documentation (GH-241) (GH-316)

(cherry picked from commit ed6795e46f7653e23b862efad240a93453e7df97)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index fe5ebcc67c..9cced51270 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ module-level functions and methods on
 that don't require you to compile a regex object first, but miss some
 fine-tuning parameters.
 
+.. seealso::
+
+   The third-party `regex <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex/>`_ module,
+   which has an API compatible with the standard library :mod:`re` module,
+   but offers additional functionality and a more thorough Unicode support.
+
 
 .. _re-syntax: