From: Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:04:24 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Document that atexit execution order is undefined (#9788)
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Document that atexit execution order is undefined (#9788)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/atexit.rst b/Doc/library/atexit.rst
index eab8cd9cca..fd884d72bb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/atexit.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/atexit.rst
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@
 
 The :mod:`atexit` module defines a single function to register cleanup
 functions.  Functions thus registered are automatically executed upon normal
-interpreter termination.
+interpreter termination.  The order in which the functions are called is not
+defined; if you have cleanup operations that depend on each other, you should
+wrap them in a function and register that one.  This keeps :mod:`atexit` simple.
 
 .. seealso::