Pyroot hangs depending on command line options

[Andrew1]

I see there was a similar thread here:

How do I tell PyRoot to ignore command line options?

Hello, I’m trying to use Python’s optparse. The problem is that Root insists on looking at the command line options as well: import optparse import ROOT import time wjetsFile = ROOT.TFile.Open ("wjetsAna.root"); # Setup options parser parser = optparse.OptionParser \ ("usage: %prog [options]\n" \ "Converts Guofan's templates to Charles' templates.") parser.add_option ('--output', dest='output', type='string', default='output.root', he…

I will clean sys.argv after parsing the options.