[Checkins] SVN: z3c.autoinclude/trunk/src/z3c/autoinclude/utils.py let `subpackageDottedNames` always return a sorted list of package names as `os.listdir` doesn't on some platforms. while this mainly fixes test failures as seen on linux (e.g. http://lists.plone.org/pipermail/testbot/2009-December/015364.html), returning the names in a predictable manner should also make sense in general...

[Wichert Akkerman]

On 2009-12-10 01:57, Andreas Zeidler wrote:
> Log message for revision 106361:
>    let `subpackageDottedNames` always return a sorted list of package names as `os.listdir` doesn't on some platforms.  while this mainly fixes test failures as seen on linux (e.g. http://lists.plone.org/pipermail/testbot/2009-December/015364.html), returning the names in a predictable manner should also make sense in general...

os.listdir does not return a sorted list on any platform. It uses the 
ordering as returned by the OS, and no OS makes any guarantee about 
ordering. Multiple calls of os.listdir can even return files in 
different orders; this happens on filesystems which uses tree-based 
directory indexes if they rebalance their tree.

Wichert.

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