diff --git a/salt/modules/file.py b/salt/modules/file.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/salt/modules/file.py
+++ b/salt/modules/file.py
@@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ def replace(path,
     This is a pure Python implementation that wraps Python's :py:func:`~re.sub`.
 
     :param path: Filesystem path to the file to be edited
-    :param pattern: The PCRE search
+    :param pattern: The Python's regular expression search 
     :param repl: The replacement text
     :param count: Maximum number of pattern occurrences to be replaced
     :param flags: A list of flags defined in the :ref:`re module documentation
[Issue #<I>] Change PCRE reference to Python's re() in the documentation.