Changed doctest to run tests in alphabetic order of name.

This makes verbose-mode output easier to dig thru, and removes an accidental
dependence on the order of dict.items() (made visible by recent changes to
dictobject.c).

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/doctest.py b/Lib/doctest.py
index 4e80f10..270e308 100644
--- a/Lib/doctest.py
+++ b/Lib/doctest.py
@@ -813,7 +813,12 @@ see its docs for details.
             raise TypeError("Tester.rundict: d must support .items(); " +
                             `d`)
         f = t = 0
-        for thisname, value in d.items():
+        # Run the tests by alpha order of names, for consistency in
+        # verbose-mode output.
+        names = d.keys()
+        names.sort()
+        for thisname in names:
+            value = d[thisname]
             if type(value) in (_FunctionType, _ClassType):
                 f2, t2 = self.__runone(value, name + "." + thisname)
                 f = f + f2
@@ -832,7 +837,12 @@ see its docs for details.
         savepvt = self.isprivate
         try:
             self.isprivate = lambda *args: 0
-            for k, v in d.items():
+            # Run the tests by alpha order of names, for consistency in
+            # verbose-mode output.
+            keys = d.keys()
+            keys.sort()
+            for k in keys:
+                v = d[k]
                 thisname = prefix + k
                 if type(v) is _StringType:
                     f, t = self.runstring(v, thisname)