PYTEST deleted EVERYTHING in my documents folder. Can I recover it? - pytest

Question

I was following a tutorial in the pytest documentation for creating temporary directories, https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/tmpdir.html and when I executed the following code, the contents of my entire documents folder was deleted.
import pytest
import os
#pytest.fixture()
def tmdirmak(tmpdir_factory):
f = tmpdir_factory.mktemp("data")
return f
def test_temp(tmp_path):
d = tmp_path / "sub1"
d.mkdir()
p = d / "tem.txt"
p.write_text("hello")
assert p.read_text() == "hello"
os.system("ls")
This file was saved in my documents folder and this is where I ran the command pytest --basetemp=. -s test_paths.py which accounting to the documentation is how you change where the temporary directory is made. I did not want the temporary directory to be made in /tmp but rather I wanted it created in the same directory that my code lives. When I ran this I got the following pytest output
test_paths.py E
================================================= ERRORS ==================================================
_______________________________________ ERROR at setup of test_temp _______________________________________
path = '/Users/matthewclark/Documents', ignore_errors = False
onerror = functools.partial(<function on_rm_rf_error at 0x7fe29a845dd0>, start_path=PosixPath('/Users/matthewclark/Documents'))
def rmtree(path, ignore_errors=False, onerror=None):
"""Recursively delete a directory tree.
If ignore_errors is set, errors are ignored; otherwise, if onerror
is set, it is called to handle the error with arguments (func,
path, exc_info) where func is platform and implementation dependent;
path is the argument to that function that caused it to fail; and
exc_info is a tuple returned by sys.exc_info(). If ignore_errors
is false and onerror is None, an exception is raised.
"""
if ignore_errors:
def onerror(*args):
pass
elif onerror is None:
def onerror(*args):
raise
if _use_fd_functions:
# While the unsafe rmtree works fine on bytes, the fd based does not.
if isinstance(path, bytes):
path = os.fsdecode(path)
# Note: To guard against symlink races, we use the standard
# lstat()/open()/fstat() trick.
try:
orig_st = os.lstat(path)
except Exception:
onerror(os.lstat, path, sys.exc_info())
return
try:
fd = os.open(path, os.O_RDONLY)
except Exception:
onerror(os.lstat, path, sys.exc_info())
return
try:
if os.path.samestat(orig_st, os.fstat(fd)):
_rmtree_safe_fd(fd, path, onerror)
try:
> os.rmdir(path)
E PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/matthewclark/Documents'
../anaconda3/lib/python3.7/shutil.py:496: PermissionError
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
path = '/Users/matthewclark/Documents', ignore_errors = False
onerror = functools.partial(<function on_rm_rf_error at 0x7fe29a845dd0>, start_path=PosixPath('/Users/matthewclark/Documents'))
def rmtree(path, ignore_errors=False, onerror=None):
"""Recursively delete a directory tree.
If ignore_errors is set, errors are ignored; otherwise, if onerror
is set, it is called to handle the error with arguments (func,
path, exc_info) where func is platform and implementation dependent;
path is the argument to that function that caused it to fail; and
exc_info is a tuple returned by sys.exc_info(). If ignore_errors
is false and onerror is None, an exception is raised.
"""
if ignore_errors:
def onerror(*args):
pass
elif onerror is None:
def onerror(*args):
raise
if _use_fd_functions:
# While the unsafe rmtree works fine on bytes, the fd based does not.
if isinstance(path, bytes):
path = os.fsdecode(path)
# Note: To guard against symlink races, we use the standard
# lstat()/open()/fstat() trick.
try:
orig_st = os.lstat(path)
except Exception:
onerror(os.lstat, path, sys.exc_info())
return
try:
fd = os.open(path, os.O_RDONLY)
except Exception:
onerror(os.lstat, path, sys.exc_info())
return
try:
if os.path.samestat(orig_st, os.fstat(fd)):
_rmtree_safe_fd(fd, path, onerror)
try:
os.rmdir(path)
except OSError:
> onerror(os.rmdir, path, sys.exc_info())
E PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/matthewclark/Documents'
../anaconda3/lib/python3.7/shutil.py:498: PermissionError
============================================ 1 error in 0.21s =============================================
I think returned to find all my folders and documents in my documents directory to be deleted! I suspect since pytest normally thinks it is in /tmp it just clears out all the stuff in that folder when it is done, including the things it didn't create. If this is true, this is a horrible bug. What's strange is I received these permission errors yet my contents were deleted anyway.