pyplotit: a python reimplementation of plotIt

The plotIt tool was developed to efficiently produce large numbers of stack plots that use the same set of samples. It is a standalone C++ executable that is very good at what it does, but it is not very customisable or flexbile: sometimes one “just” wants to get a few histograms to make a specific plot instead of a whole batch, but still take advantage of the information stored in the configuration file and the naming conventions.

This package tries to bridge that gap: it aims to provide a simple python interface to the de-facto file format defined by plotIt: a YAML configuration file and a director of ROOT files with histograms. Basic plotting methods are provided, but they are currently far from supporting all the styling options of plotIt.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Getting started
  • Installation
  • Example: loading histograms from a plotIt configuration
• Overview
• Architecture
• Reference
  • YAML configuration parsing

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page