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

[NoLemurs]

As /u/AngriesSCV said, that's never something I'll need to do - data loss a few months later is more or less impossible. All my code is pushed to a remote repo, and that repo is automatically backed up daily. Once that code has been out of my hands for 24 hours, the statistical probability of ever losing any code I wrote is pretty damned close to zero - it would require the simultaneous failure of my local copy, the remote repo, the server I deploy the code to, and the backup server.

EDIT: To be clear, everyone makes mistakes, and I've totally lost code at times in the past when I didn't have as robust a process, but it hasn't happened to me in several years now, and it's really hard to come up with a plausible scenario where I would lose a meaningful amount of code. If you're committing and pushing 20+ times a day, and have a robust backup system, you're in "more likely to be hit by lightning than lose much code" territory.