[2.7] Fix a trivial typo in global section (GH-1497) (GH-1882)
(cherry picked from commit f34c6850203a2406c4950af7a9c8a134145df4ea)
diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
index 848bb9e..43935da 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
@@ -972,7 +972,7 @@
builtin: execfile
builtin: compile
-**Programmer's note:** the :keyword:`global` is a directive to the parser. It
+**Programmer's note:** :keyword:`global` is a directive to the parser. It
applies only to code parsed at the same time as the :keyword:`global` statement.
In particular, a :keyword:`global` statement contained in an :keyword:`exec`
statement does not affect the code block *containing* the :keyword:`exec`