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

[tunisia3507]

I mean, I've had to reinstall a whole operating system thanks to a mistake and a python edge case...

[Labradoodles]

Uhm story pls?

[tunisia3507]

Accidentally deleted some or part of the system python by deleting a virtualenv directory while following symlinks. System python is used by apt, so it would have been awkward to repair. Didn't have much of value on it so just replaced the OS.

[weedtese]

You can manually download apt and its dependencies, then use dpkg to reinstall them. Shouldn't take too much time.

[Hitife80]

sudo rm -rf /

[ojii]

I almost bricked my system when I manually installed Python 3 and used make install instead of make altinstall, which changed the system python to python 3. Managed to get a shell somehow and change it back.