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How to use PROOF from the Python shell

Enable the ROOT Python bindings

First all make sure the the ROOT Python bindings have been built: under $ROOTSYS/lib there should be modules ROOT.py and libPyROOT.so (under windows the related modules appear under$ROOTSYS/bin).

Using the GUI

Since ROOT v5.04 a dedicated GUI is available to control PROOF sessions. The GUI allows starting a session, to handle packages, to define and run queries and to handle the results of queries. To usage of the GUI is described in here.

Connecting to PROOF

In this section we discuss the different ways to open a PROOF session.

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