[3.12] gh-111259: Document idiomatic RE pattern (?s:.) that matches a…

…ny character (GH-120745) (GH-120814) (cherry picked from commit a2f6f7d) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
python · Jun 20, 2024 · e58bece · e58bece
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@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ The special characters are:
 ``.``
    (Dot.)  In the default mode, this matches any character except a newline.  If
    the :const:`DOTALL` flag has been specified, this matches any character
-   including a newline.
+   including a newline.  ``(?s:.)`` matches any character regardless of flags.
 
 .. index:: single: ^ (caret); in regular expressions