diff --git a/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst
index ef93f05a7a5..68b437f2c04 100644
--- a/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ patterns.
       >>>
       >>> regex = fnmatch.translate('*.txt')
       >>> regex
-      '.*\\.txt$'
+      '.*\\.txt\\Z(?ms)'
       >>> reobj = re.compile(regex)
       >>> reobj.match('foobar.txt')
       <_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 10), match='foobar.txt'>