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Revision: 1.2
Committed: Sat Mar 3 03:49:59 2007 UTC (18 years, 2 months ago) by hegner
Content type: text/x-python
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.1: +1 -1 lines
Log Message:
Updated documentation.

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# Content
1 from PhysicsTools.PythonAnalysis.cmstools import *
2 from ROOT import *
3 # prepare the FWLite autoloading mechanism
4 gSystem.Load("libFWCoreFWLite.so")
5 AutoLibraryLoader.enable()
6
7 # load the file with the generator output
8 theFile = TFile("generatorOutput.root")
9
10 events = theFile.Get("Events")
11
12 # Needed for SetAddress to work right
13 events.GetEntry()
14
15 # set the buffers for the branches you want to access
16 # 1) create a buffer
17 # 2) open the root branch
18 # 3) connect buffer and branch
19 # example: generator particles
20 source = edm.HepMCProduct()
21 sourceBranch = events.GetBranch(events.GetAlias("source"))
22 sourceBranch.SetAddress(source)
23
24 # now loop over the events
25 for index in all(events):
26
27 # update all branches - the buffers are filled automatically
28 # Hint: put all you branches in a list and loop over it
29 sourceBranch.GetEntry(index)
30 events.GetEntry(index,0)
31
32 # do something with the data
33 genEvent = source.GetEvent();
34 print genEvent.event_number()