diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
index a9fb19b..4046246 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
@@ -876,6 +876,9 @@
 characters have been mapped through the given translation table, which
 must be a string of length 256.
 
+You can use the \function{maketrans()} helper function in the
+\refmodule{string} module to create a translation table.
+
 For Unicode objects, the \method{translate()} method does not
 accept the optional \var{deletechars} argument.  Instead, it
 returns a copy of the \var{s} where all characters have been mapped
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
index 1828b2e..bc1649f 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{maketrans}{from, to}
   Return a translation table suitable for passing to
-  \function{translate()} or \function{regex.compile()}, that will map
+  \function{translate()}, that will map
   each character in \var{from} into the character at the same position
   in \var{to}; \var{from} and \var{to} must have the same length.