diff --git a/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst
index 9163da57c7b999..46bf0fc2848058 100644
--- a/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ patterns.
 
 Also note that :func:`functools.lru_cache` with the *maxsize* of 32768 is used to
 cache the compiled regex patterns in the following functions: :func:`fnmatch`,
-:func:`fnmatchcase`, :func:`filter`.
+:func:`fnmatchcase`, :func:`.filter`.
 
 .. function:: fnmatch(filename, pattern)