Zectbumo <alf...@54.org> added the comment:

@eric.smith
It actually caused a problem and then turned into a curiosity. At the beginning 
I wanted to remind myself about the string module so I did a help(string). Then 
right after that I wrote a program that generated filenames from 
string.letters. I closed the python interpreter down and then reopened it and 
regenerated filenames again using string.letters. To my surprise I found the 
second iteration to come out with completely different results messing up my 
work. Once I found that help() was causing this problem and it became a 
curiosity because you would think help() would not modify anything. Obviously 
this problem is easy to work around in my case.

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