| CMS Note | |
| Report number | CMS-CR-2009-112 |
| Title | Usage of the Python Programming Language on the CMS Experiment |
| Author(s) | Wilkinson, R (Caltech) ; Hegner, B (CERN) |
| Publication | 2010 |
| Imprint | 16 May 2009 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| In: | J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 219 (2010) 042026 |
| In: | 17th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Prague, Czech Republic, 21 - 27 Mar 2009, pp.042026 |
| DOI | 10.1088/1742-6596/219/4/042026 |
| Subject category | Detectors and Experimental Techniques |
| Accelerator/Facility, Experiment | CERN LHC ; CMS |
| Free keywords | SOFTWARE |
| Abstract | Being a highly dynamic language and allowing reliable programming with quick turnarounds, Python is a widely used programming language in CMS. Most of the tools used in workflow management and the GRID interface tools are written in this language. Also most of the tools used in the context of release management: integration builds, release building and deploying, as well as performance measurements are in Python. With an interface to the CMS data formats, rapid prototyping of analyses and debugging is an additional use case. Finally in 2008 the CMS experiment switched to using Python as its configuration language. This talk will give an overview of the general usage of Python in the CMS experiment and discuss which features of the language make it well-suited for the existing use cases. |
| Copyright/License | Preprint: (License: CC-BY-4.0) |
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