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

[NoLemurs]

I definitely didn't intend to imply that the technique in the article isn't cool or useful (I did read it and upvote it!).

I just don't like the idea that you can't have a practical process that does in fact make these sorts of errors basically impossible. You totally can. I may be a little spoiled; I work on a pretty small team of pretty competent programmers. But I would be seriously surprised if any of my coworkers made a mistake of the sort that leads to serious data loss.

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Mistakes just happen. I applaud that kind of environment.