9.9. Accessing files on disk

9.9.1. Loading a user-made library from disk

The library file is located in the same folder as the notebook and imported as in any other python source code

from myrand import generate_TCL_ms
from stats import stats

mean = 0.
sigma = 2.5
N_events = 1000
N_TCLsampling = 10

randlist = generate_TCL_ms (mean, sigma, N_events, N_TCLsampling)
print ('generated ', len (randlist), 'events')
mystats = stats (randlist)
print ('mean: ', mystats.mean (), '\u00B1', mystats.sigma_mean ())
print ('sigma: ', mystats.sigma ())

generated  1000 events
mean:  0.0534811198074129 ± 0.07805743137831431
sigma:  2.468392714577696

with open ('sample.txt', 'w') as output_file :
    for item in randlist:
        # write each item on a new line
        output_file.write (str (item) + '\n')

with open ('sample.txt') as input_file :
    sample = [float (x) for x in input_file.readlines()]
print ('read ', len (sample), 'events')

read  1000 events