From f08b20ea704a994f1b9a97a3a4771d48daab6a42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Weber <ChristianTMWeber@gmal.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:46:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure we can call 'limitSettingHistPrep' from anywhere
---
limitSetting/limitSettingHistPrep.py | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/limitSetting/limitSettingHistPrep.py b/limitSetting/limitSettingHistPrep.py
index 01943d9..556df1c 100644
--- a/limitSetting/limitSettingHistPrep.py
+++ b/limitSetting/limitSettingHistPrep.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import collections # so we can use collections.defaultdict to more easily constr
import re
import time # for measuring execution time
import copy # for making deep copies
+import os # for file system operations
# import sys and os.path to be able to import plotPostProcess from the parent directory
@@ -308,7 +309,11 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
help="name of the mc campaign, i.e. mc16a or mc16d, need to provide exactly 1 mc-campaign tag for each input file, \
make sure that sequence of mc-campaign tags matches the sequence of 'input' strings")
- parser.add_argument("-d", "--metaData", type=str, default="../metadata/md_bkg_datasets_mc16e_All.txt" ,
+ parser.add_argument("-d", "--metaData", type=str,
+
+ # __file__ stores the location of the file / script we are currently on,
+ # so let's use the construct below so that we can load the metadata regardless of where we call this script from
+ default= os.path.join( os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)),"../metadata/md_bkg_datasets_mc16e_All.txt") ,
help="location of the metadata file for the given mc campaign. If not provided, we will use a default location" )
parser.add_argument( "--DSID_Binning", type=str, help = "set how the different DSIDS are combined, ",
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