From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:47:08 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Issue #22949: Documented that fnmatch.translate() is for use with re.match().
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Issue #22949: Documented that fnmatch.translate() is for use with re.match().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst
index a539654572..3dfec2d52e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ patterns.
 
 .. function:: translate(pattern)
 
-   Return the shell-style *pattern* converted to a regular expression.
+   Return the shell-style *pattern* converted to a regular expression for
+   using with :func:`re.match`.
 
    Example: