| Description: | library/glob.html in the Python 2 and 3 documentation before 2016 has
potentially misleading information about whether sorting occurs, as
demonstrated by irreproducible cancer-research results. NOTE: the
effects of this documentation cross application domains, and thus it
is likely that security-relevant code elsewhere is affected. This
issue is not a Python implementation bug, and there are no reports
that NMR researchers were specifically relying on library/glob.html.
In other words, because the older documentation stated "finds all the
pathnames matching a specified pattern according to the rules used by
the Unix shell," one might have incorrectly inferred that the sorting
that occurs in a Unix shell also occurred for glob.glob. There is a
workaround in newer versions of Willoughby nmr-data_compilation-p2.py
and nmr-data_compilation-p3.py, which call sort() directly.
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