Add mdfwriter.py script
- Mar 21, 2022
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Rosen Matev authored
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Rosen Matev authored
It can be used for converting data from ROOT formats to MDF but also to subset MDF data (e.g. first N events).
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It can be used for converting data from ROOT formats to MDF but also to subset MDF data (e.g. first N events).
LHCb/run mdfwriter.py -h
usage: mdfwriter.py [-h] -o OUTPUT [-f] [--db-entry] [--start START] [-n NEVENTS | --stop STOP] files [files ...]
Convert data to MDF format
positional arguments:
files Input filenames or TestFileDB entry
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
Output filename
-f, --force Overwrite output file if it exists
--db-entry Interpret the file as a TestFileDB entry
--start START First event to write
-n NEVENTS, --nevents NEVENTS
Number of events to write
--stop STOP Last event to write (exclusive)
This kind of generalizes ExampleXDigiToMDF.py, so we might decide to drop it.
It can be used for converting data from ROOT formats to MDF but also to subset MDF data (e.g. first N events).