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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+    test_env_read_docs
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+    Test docnames read order modification using the env-read-docs event.
+
+    :copyright: Copyright 2014 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS.
+    :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details.
+"""
+
+import pickle
+
+from docutils.parsers.rst.directives.html import MetaBody
+
+from sphinx import addnodes
+from sphinx.versioning import add_uids, merge_doctrees, get_ratio
+
+from util import test_root, TestApp
+
+def setup_module():
+    pass
+
+def test_default_docnames_order():
+    """By default, docnames are read in alphanumeric order"""
+    def on_env_read_docs(app, env, docnames):
+        return docnames
+
+    app = TestApp(srcdir='(temp)', freshenv=True)
+    env = app.env
+    app.connect('env-read-docs', on_env_read_docs)
+
+    msg, num, it = env.update(app.config, app.srcdir, app.doctreedir, app)
+    read_docnames = [docname for docname in it]
+    assert len(read_docnames) > 1 and read_docnames == sorted(read_docnames)
+
+def test_inverse_docnames_order():
+    """By default, docnames are read in alphanumeric order"""
+    def on_env_read_docs(app, env, docnames):
+        docnames.reverse()
+        return docnames
+
+    app = TestApp(srcdir='(temp)', freshenv=True)
+    env = app.env
+    app.connect('env-read-docs', on_env_read_docs)
+
+    msg, num, it = env.update(app.config, app.srcdir, app.doctreedir, app)
+    read_docnames = [docname for docname in it]
+    reversed_read_docnames = sorted(read_docnames)[:]
+    reversed_read_docnames.reverse()
+    assert len(read_docnames) > 1 and read_docnames == reversed_read_docnames
+
+def teardown_module():
+    (test_root / '_build').rmtree(True)