diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index f5427a4072a802..f642f59a93990e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -240,8 +240,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. interactive statement (in the latter case, expression statements that evaluate to something other than ``None`` will be printed). - The optional arguments *flags* and *dont_inherit* control which future - statements (see :pep:`236`) affect the compilation of *source*. If neither + The optional arguments *flags* and *dont_inherit* control which :ref:`future + statements ` affect the compilation of *source*. If neither is present (or both are zero) the code is compiled with those future statements that are in effect in the code that is calling :func:`compile`. If the *flags* argument is given and *dont_inherit* is not (or is zero) then the