I screwed up with git and managed to delete the code I had just written... but it was still running in a process in a docker container. Here's how I got it back. Attach a shell to the docker container Install GDB (needed by pyrasite) apt-get update && apt-get install gdb Install pyrasite - this well let you attach a Python shell to the still-running process. pip install pyrasite Install uncompyle2, which will let you get Python source code back from in-memory code objects: pip install uncompyle2 Find the PID of the process that is still running ps aux | grep python Attach an interactive prompt using pyrasite pyrasite-shell Now you're in an interactive prompt! Import the code you need to recover: >>> from my_package import my_module Figure out which functions and classes you need to recover: >>> dir(my_module) ['MyClass', 'my_function'] Decompile the function into source code: >>> import uncompyle6 >>> import sys >>> uncompyle6.main.uncompyle( 2.7, my_module.my_function.func_code, sys.stdout ) # uncompyle6 version 2.9.10 # Python bytecode 2.7 # Decompiled from: Python 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10) # [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] # Embedded file name: /srv/destination_service/destination_service/wsgi.py function_body = "appears here" For the class, you'll need to decompile each method in turn: >>> uncompyle6.main.uncompyle( 2.7, my_module.MyClass.my_method.im_func.func_code, sys.stdout ) # uncompyle6 version 2.9.10 # Python bytecode 2.7 # Decompiled from: Python 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10) # [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] # Embedded file name: /srv/my_package/my_module.py class_method_body = "appears here"