A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors In More Than 100 Published Studies

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os.listdir doc already says “The list is in arbitrary order”:

glob doc says “results are returned in arbitrary order”:

The question is more why users don’t read the documentation :smiley: Well, as I wrote previously, if someone wants to work on these issues, I suggest to write a 3rd party tool to randomize listdir() order, the tool doesn’t have to be written in Python. And http://reproducible-builds.org/ already provides such tools :wink:

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One of reasons is because the code was written before adding these sentences in the documentation.