[Rivet] Python, Rivet 1.20, CERN AFS, LXBATCH

[Andy Buckley]

I recommend using SLC5 at CERN when possible: lxplus5.cern.ch should be
enough. If that's not an option, then I know that there are Python 2.5
setups on AFS -- the ATLAS software uses one, for sure -- maybe the CERN
helpdesk could advise on how to set up the shell environment to use one
of those?

Andy


On 18/03/10 15:24, Eike von Seggern wrote:
> Hi Terrance,
> 
> the old Python 2.3 on SL 4 is probably the culprit. It's missing some
> language constructs modern Python version have.
> 
> Can you please try the attached patch. You can apply it like this:
> 
> cd /afs/cern.ch/user/t/terrance/rivet-1.2.0/local/lib64/python2.3/site-packages/
> patch -p0 < PATH/TO/lighthisto.patch
> 
> Cheers,
>     eike
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:44 +0100, Terrance Figy wrote:
>> Dear Rivet developers,
>> I was wondering if you could help me understand why the aida2flat script crashes. Should I be using phython 2.5.  Cern AFS seems be using 2.3 by default on the SL4. 
>>
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>> bash-3.00$ aida2flat -help
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/afs/cern.ch/user/t/terrance/rivet-1.2.0/local/bin/aida2flat", line 5, in ?
>>     import lighthisto
>>   File "/afs/cern.ch/user/t/terrance/rivet-1.2.0/local/lib64/python2.3/site-packages/lighthisto.py", line 18
>>     for code,name in codepoint2name.iteritems()
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Terrance 
>>
>>
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