Issue #25615: Document unsorted behaviour of glob; patch by Dave Jones

diff --git a/Doc/library/glob.rst b/Doc/library/glob.rst
index abcbf380d95e2617da883821b77572b9e6ab821b..8e9af376a8559369001c0c0b6714bbb94143c46f 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/glob.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/glob.rst
@@ -12,13 +12,13 @@
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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.