New submission from David Jones:
```
for f in glob.glob('input/*/*.dat'): print f
```
outputs:
```
input/ghcnm.v3.2.2.20140611/ghcnm.tavg.v3.2.2.20140611.qca.dat
input/ghcnm.v3.2.2.20140506/ghcnm.tavg.v3.2.2.20140506.qca.dat
```
Note that these are not in the right order. Compare with shell which always
sorts its globs:
```
drj$ printf '%s\n' input/*/*.dat
input/ghcnm.v3.2.2.20140506/ghcnm.tavg.v3.2.2.20140506.qca.dat
input/ghcnm.v3.2.2.20140611/ghcnm.tavg.v3.2.2.20140611.qca.dat
```
I think the shell behaviour is better and we should be allowed to rely on
glob.glob sorting its result.
Note from the documentation: "The glob module finds all the pathnames matching
a specified pattern according to the rules used by the Unix shell". The Unix
shell has always sorted its globs.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 220441
nosy: drj
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: glob.glob does not sort its results
versions: Python 2.7
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