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authorMichael Foord <michael@voidspace.org.uk>2013-03-19 00:50:12 (GMT)
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Closes issue 16709. unittest test discovery sorts test files for consistent test ordering
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@@ -1518,6 +1518,11 @@ Loading and running tests
Modules that raise ``SkipTest`` on import are recorded as skips, not
errors.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.4
+ Paths are sorted before being imported to ensure execution order for a
+ given test suite is the same even if the underlying file system's ordering
+ is not dependent on file name like in ext3/4.
+
The following attributes of a :class:`TestLoader` can be configured either by
subclassing or assignment on an instance: