What order does info get returned in by os.listdir()

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On Aug 14, 1:52 pm, Jeremy C B Nicoll <jer... at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> What order does info get returned in by os.listdir() ?
>
> I'm just starting to write python code, on an Win XP Pro machine.  I've got
> various directories which, when I look at them in Win XP, sorted by name, I
> see in order, eg:
>
>    ~prefixed file   .txt
>    A.txt
>    B.txt
>    ...
>    Z.txt
>
> ie, XP seems to think that files with a "~" as their first character are
> sorted ahead of A.
>
> When I use os.listdir() to return that list of leaf values, I do seem to get
> them in alphabetical order, A before B before C etc, but the ~-prefixed ones
> are returned after the Z-prefixed files rather than before the A-ones.
>
> I was wondering why...
>
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> Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.