> Is this particular user computer literate or has access to someone
>that are? I wouldn't suspect a an illiterate person to mess around
>with generators, but I can imagine normal programmers like most of us
>to write code that got the generators value, executed something and
>then reset the generator. If someone wrote code like this and intended
>it for testing purposes (e.g. when you import and then delete and want
>everything to be as before you started testing) and someone uses it in
>a production environment without wanting to delete anything, then I
>would expect things like what you are observing to happen.

I don't suspect the user in any way.