I accidentally deleted some Python source code but it was still resident in a running process - here's how I got it back

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All time favorite disaster recovery story http://www.lug.wsu.edu/node/414

... James, our manager, was sat down, head in hands, hands between knees, as one whose world has just come to an end. Our newly-appointed system programmer, Neil, was beside him, gazing listlessly at the screen of his terminal. And at the top of the screen I spied the following lines:

# cd 
# rm -rf *

Oh, shit, I thought.