Speaker
Dr
Witold Pokorski
(CERN)
Description
Geant4 is one of the principal toolkits used for the simulation of the passage
of particles through matter. It is implemented in C++ and it exposes to the
users a set of methods (of different classes) needed to construct a functional
application. In other words, users need to interact with Geant4 objects via a
C++ API and therefore users' Geant4 based applications are normally written in
C++.
In this paper we discuss how to use the Reflex/PyROOT tools to create a Python
binding for the Geant4 classes. Such a binding gives the users the possibility
of implementing their applications in Python as well as to interact and
configure them from the Python prompt. Moreover, using the already existing
Python binding for the ROOT data analysis framework, the Python binding for
Geant4 allows to run interactively and simultaneously the two applications from
the Python prompt. This proves to be very interesting, especially in the case of
development and debugging of simulation applications. The advantanges of using
the Reflex/PyROOT tools for creating a Python binding for C++ classes will be
presented in this paper.
Primary author
Dr
Witold Pokorski
(CERN)
