diff --git a/Lib/doctest.py b/Lib/doctest.py
index 47b3aae..fe734b3 100644
--- a/Lib/doctest.py
+++ b/Lib/doctest.py
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
 
 import __future__
 
-import sys, traceback, inspect, linecache, os, re, types
+import sys, traceback, inspect, linecache, os, re
 import unittest, difflib, pdb, tempfile
 import warnings
 from StringIO import StringIO
@@ -821,6 +821,11 @@
         # Recursively expore `obj`, extracting DocTests.
         tests = []
         self._find(tests, obj, name, module, source_lines, globs, {})
+        # Sort the tests by alpha order of names, for consistency in
+        # verbose-mode output.  This was a feature of doctest in Pythons
+        # <= 2.3 that got lost by accident in 2.4.  It was repaired in
+        # 2.4.4 and 2.5.
+        tests.sort()
         return tests
 
     def _from_module(self, module, object):