Python and lost files

[Timothy W. Grove]

Recently I purchased some software to recover some files which I had 
lost. (A python project, incidentally! Yes, I should have kept better 
backups!) They were nowhere to found in the file system, nor in the 
recycle bin, but this software was able to locate them and restore them. 
I was just wondering if there was a way using python to view and recover 
files from the hard drive which would otherwise remain lost forever?

Best regards,
Tim