makeHLTPrescaleTable Namespace Reference

Functions
def	getPrescaleTableFromProcessObject (process)
def	getProcessObjectFromConfDB (hlt_key)

Function Documentation

def makeHLTPrescaleTable.getPrescaleTableFromProcessObject

(

process

)

returns a dict of hlt key to vector of prescales
mapping 

Definition at line 56 of file makeHLTPrescaleTable.py.

Referenced by getProcessObjectFromConfDB().

def getPrescaleTableFromProcessObject(process):
   """ returns a dict of hlt key to vector of prescales
   mapping """

   retval = {}
   for entry in process.PrescaleService.prescaleTable:
       retval[entry.pathName.value()] = entry.prescales.value()

   return retval    

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def makeHLTPrescaleTable.getProcessObjectFromConfDB

(

hlt_key

)

Definition at line 68 of file makeHLTPrescaleTable.py.

References cmsRelvalreport.exit, reco.get(), getPrescaleTableFromProcessObject(), join(), edm.print(), and str.

def getProcessObjectFromConfDB(hlt_key):
   # print >> stderr,"\t%s ..." % hlt_key
   cmd = "edmConfigFromDB --orcoff --configName " + hlt_key
   # print >> stderr, "cmd=",cmd
   res = commands.getoutput(cmd)

   # potentially dangerous: we're running python code here
   # which we get from an external process (confDB).
   # we trust that there are no file deletion commands
   # in the HLT configurations...

   # for some keys, edmConfigFromDB seems to produce error messages.
   # just return None in this case
   try:
       exec(res)
   except:
       return None

   return process

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