Fix a trivial typo in global section (#1497)
diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
index e152b16..63d0ea5 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
@@ -922,7 +922,7 @@
builtin: eval
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 a string or code
object supplied to the built-in :func:`exec` function does not affect the code