Getting info on histogram composition in saved .root files

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Opening a histogram from a file

…a cryptically difficult task, apparently. So I’ve managed to find quite a few threads that more or less cover the issue I’m having… but nothing I have tried seems to be working at all. The short of it is, I have two files, each with one histogram inside. Not a tree, just a histogram. I’d like to open them one at a time, and make a copy of each of these histograms in a way that I can perform simple functions such as GetXmin() and GetBinContent(bin). Later of course, there are more complicated …