[Python] Does BeautifulSoup find_all() preserve tag order?

I wish to use BeautifulSoup to parse some HMTL. I have a table with several rows. I'm trying to find a row that meets certain conditions (certain attribute values) and use the index of that row later on in my code.

The question is: does find_all() preserve the order of my rows in the result set that it returns?

I didn't find this in the docs and Googling got me only to this answer:

'BeautifulSoup tags don't track their order in the page, no.'
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but he does not say where he got that information from.

I'd be happy with an answer, but even more happy with a pointer to some documentation that explains this.

Edit: dstudeba pointed me in the direction of this 'workaround' using next_sibling.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(open('./mytable.html'), 'html.parser')
row = soup.find('tr', {'class':'something', 'someattr':'somevalue'})
myvalues = []
while True:
cell = row.find('td', {'someattr':'cellspecificvalue'})
myvalues.append(cell.get_text())
row = row.find_next_sibling('tr', {'class':'something', 'someattr':'somevalue'})
if not row:
break


This gets me the cell contents I need in the order they appear in my html file.

However I'd still like to know where in the BeautifulSoup docs I could find whether find_all() preserves order or not. This is why I'm not accepting dstudeba's answer. (my upvote doesn't show, not enough rep yet )

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