Brett, The idea is to add PyRoot to the standard Root distribution once the product has reached some stability (now close to this goal). Rene Brun Brett Viren wrote: > > Hi Rene, > > Rene Brun writes: > > > > The ROOT workshop page is reachable from http://root.cern.ch > > http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT/www/Computing/Distributed/ROOT2004/ > > http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT/www/Computing/Distributed/ROOT2004/program.html > > Thanks, but my real question was: > > > > Any reason not to distribute [PyROOT] with ROOT proper? > > Personally, I would much rather write ROOT scripts in Python than > pseudo-C++, so I hope this becomes a standard part of ROOT. > > BTW, I have tried out PyROOT 1.3.3 and it can be easily built with out > SEAL's CMT framework. The "ROOT from Python" works as advertized in > the talk. Very cool! > > However, I couldn't get "Python from ROOT" to work. Slide 10 of the > talk shows the Python stuff being in namespace "Python" but I don't > find that defined in v1.3.3. Maybe this is a more recent development > or implemented outside of the PyROOT area in SEAL? > > Also, I noticed that operator()() and operator[]() aren't mapped to > Python's __getitem__ and __call__ respectively. For example: > > >>> from ROOT import TVector3 > >>> v = TVector3(0,1,2) > >>> v[2] > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > AttributeError: TVector3 instance has no attribute '__getitem__' > >>> v > <ROOT.TVector3 instance at 0x8c216b4> > >>> v.X() > 0.0 > >>> v.Y() > 1.0 > >>> v(2) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > AttributeError: TVector3 instance has no __call__ method > > But, anyways, PyROOT looks like a great thing and I really hope it can > become more mainstream by being part of ROOT proper. > > -Brett.
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