Python and lost files

[alex23]

"Timothy W. Grove" <tim_gr... at sil.org> wrote:
> 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?

I'm not familiar with any Python-based tools for data recovery, but
you might be interested in mercurial[1], which _is_ (primarily)
written in Python ;)

1: http://mercurial.selenic.com/