NOTE: this repo is moved to https://github.com/xiaohu-cern/readgen for easy external excess
This is a toolkit to read gen EDM files and output histograms.
The code is based on pythonic DataFormats.FWLite.
Recommend to use ssh with easy ssh keys to pull and push without password.
git clone git@github.com:xiaohu-cern/readgen.git
To setup the ssh keys, see this link https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/authenticating-to-github/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent
Once you have the keys, do this setup everytime before your use git
git config --global user.name YOUR NAME
git config --global user.email YOUR@EMAIL
git config --global user.github YOUR_GIT_ACCOUNT
git config --global http.emptyAuth true
export VISUAL=vim
eval $(ssh-agent); ssh-add /YOURHOMEDIR/.ssh/id_rsa_github
Use CMSSW_10_2_20_UL
source setup.sh
Configure the input / output files and run. For example, to read HH->bbmumu gen 5949 event records, do
python read_bbmm.py
edmDumpEventContent xxx.root