pyroot-tutorials

PyROOT is a Python programming language extension module that allows the user to interact with any ROOT class from the Python interpreter. The rootpy and root_numpy projects build on top of PyROOT to make working with ROOT from Python more user-friendly and faster, they come with their own webpage, which contains links to tutorials and reference documentation.

PyROOT does come with a manual and tutorial example scripts at tutorials/pyroot/*.py (see online here).

Here we aim to provide additional PyROOT tutorials and documentation that are supposed to

• make it easier to get started with PyROOT (check out the introduction IPython notebook)
• learn some tricks that are important to know when using PyROOT (like what is fast and what isn't)
• cover more ROOT functionality (e.g. RooStats, RooFit, TMVA) than the official PyROOT tutorials.

Any contribution is very welcome (via a pull request for the pyroot-tutorials repo on github), specifically we are looking for more

• Python scripts or IPython notebooks that showcase / explain some aspect of ROOT / PyROOT in the tutorials folder.
• Tips and tricks on working with PyROOT (e.g. how ROOT library loading in the background works, tab completion in IPython, C++ to Python translation recipes, ...) in the docs folder, although in most cases an IPython notebook would probably work better and go in the tutorials folder.
• C++ to Python translations of official ROOT tutorials (html, code) (as of January 2013 there's 565 .C files there and only 39 .py files) in the official folder.
• Links to other good ROOT / PyROOT resources in docs/Resources.rst