[Rivet-svn] rivet: Write out intermediate histogram files by default, with e...

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details:   https://rivet.hepforge.org/hg/rivet/rev/f5a515599377
branches:  release-2-4-x
changeset: 4938:f5a515599377
user:      Andy Buckley <andy at insectnation.org>
date:      Thu Nov 26 08:05:54 2015 +0000
description:
Write out intermediate histogram files by default, with event interval of 10k.

diffs (32 lines):

--- a/ChangeLog	Wed Nov 25 10:24:17 2015 +0000
+++ b/ChangeLog	Thu Nov 26 08:05:54 2015 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2015-11-26  Andy Buckley  <andy.buckley at cern.ch>
+
+	* Write out intermediate histogram files by default, with event interval of 10k.
+
 2015-11-25  Andy Buckley  <andy.buckley at cern.ch>
 
 	* Protect make-plots against lock-up due to partial pstricks command when there are no data points.
--- a/bin/rivet	Wed Nov 25 10:24:17 2015 +0000
+++ b/bin/rivet	Thu Nov 26 08:05:54 2015 +0000
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@
                        "as the LCG Grid where tokens expire on a fixed wall-clock and can render long Rivet runs unable to write "
                        "out the final histogram file (default = unlimited)")
 timinggroup.add_option("--histo-interval", dest="HISTO_WRITE_INTERVAL", type=int,
-                       default=None, help="[experimental!] specify the number of events between histogram file updates. "
-                       "Default is to only write out at the end of the run. Note that intermediate histograms will be those "
+                       default=10000, help="[experimental!] specify the number of events between histogram file updates. "
+                       "Set to 0 to only write out at the end of the run. Note that intermediate histograms will be those "
                        "from the analyze step only: analysis finalizing is currently not executed until the end of the run.")
 parser.add_option_group(timinggroup)
 
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@
             sys.exit(3)
 
         ## Write a histo file snapshot if appropriate
-        if opts.HISTO_WRITE_INTERVAL is not None:
+        if opts.HISTO_WRITE_INTERVAL is not None and opts.HISTO_WRITE_INTERVAL > 0:
             if evtnum % opts.HISTO_WRITE_INTERVAL == 0:
                 ah.writeData(opts.HISTOFILE)