diff --git a/webnotes/modules/utils.py b/webnotes/modules/utils.py
index e46f179d04..bda7823fbe 100644
--- a/webnotes/modules/utils.py
+++ b/webnotes/modules/utils.py
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ def pprint_doclist(doclist, with_comments = 1):
 	"""
 	from json import dumps
 
-	return dumps(commonify_doclist(doclist, False), indent=1)
+	return dumps(commonify_doclist(doclist, False), indent=1, sort_keys=True)
 
 def peval_doclist(txt):
 	"""