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authorMartin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>2015-11-16 23:46:22 (GMT)
committerMartin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>2015-11-16 23:46:22 (GMT)
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Issue #25615: Document unsorted behaviour of glob; patch by Dave Jones
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The :mod:`glob` module finds all the pathnames matching a specified pattern
-according to the rules used by the Unix shell. No tilde expansion is done, but
-``*``, ``?``, and character ranges expressed with ``[]`` will be correctly
-matched. This is done by using the :func:`os.listdir` and
-:func:`fnmatch.fnmatch` functions in concert, and not by actually invoking a
-subshell. Note that unlike :func:`fnmatch.fnmatch`, :mod:`glob` treats
-filenames beginning with a dot (``.``) as special cases. (For tilde and shell
-variable expansion, use :func:`os.path.expanduser` and
+according to the rules used by the Unix shell, although results are returned in
+arbitrary order. No tilde expansion is done, but ``*``, ``?``, and character
+ranges expressed with ``[]`` will be correctly matched. This is done by using
+the :func:`os.listdir` and :func:`fnmatch.fnmatch` functions in concert, and
+not by actually invoking a subshell. Note that unlike :func:`fnmatch.fnmatch`,
+:mod:`glob` treats filenames beginning with a dot (``.``) as special cases.
+(For tilde and shell variable expansion, use :func:`os.path.expanduser` and
:func:`os.path.expandvars`.)
For a literal match, wrap the meta-characters in brackets.