Oddbean new post about login | logout @e7491467 @2ad00f7c Also, I fucked up. For this specific use-case it should be for name in names: Path(name).unlink(missingok=True) If there isn't, it should be in a try-except just for correctness. Without it there is a very theoretical (given your use-case) race condition.
@87c98d39 @e7491467 @2ad00f7c Um. Going back to the *problem*, untarring in the wrong directory, neither code is necessarily good. 1. Where you did this, there is an entry "foo". 2. The tarball contains an entry "foo". If you overwrote "foo", your original file is lost. If you didn't, you'll lose it after deleting all entries contained in the tarball.