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My first Python script deleted my entire 'Documents' folder
I was in my apartment in Chicago, trying to write a script to clean up old text files. I used 'os.remove' with a wildcard path, but I messed up the directory. Instead of targeting my 'temp_files' folder, it pointed to 'Documents'. In about two seconds, every photo and tax file from the last three years was gone. I panicked, but then remembered reading about the 'send2trash' module. I rewrote the script to use that instead, and now I test all my file paths in a dummy folder first. Has anyone else had a close call like that with file operations?
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dianas502d ago
Lost a whole project folder once, brutal.
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