# Pyroot 0 0 1_Array Interface¶

This tutorial illustrates the conversion of STL vectors and TVec to numpy arrays without copying the data. The memory-adoption is achieved by the dictionary array_interface, which is added dynamically to the Python objects by PyROOT.

Author: Stefan Wunsch
This notebook tutorial was automatically generated with ROOTBOOK-izer from the macro found in the ROOT repository on Monday, December 06, 2021 at 09:22 AM.

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import ROOT
from sys import exit

try:
import numpy as np
except:
exit()


Create a vector ROOT object and assign values Note that this works as well with a TVec

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vec = ROOT.std.vector("float")(2)
vec[0] = 1
vec[1] = 2
print("Content of the ROOT vector object: {}".format([x for x in vec]))


Interface ROOT vector with a numpy array

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array = np.asarray(vec)
print("Content of the associated numpy array: {}".format([x for x in array]))


The numpy array adopts the memory of the vector without copying the content. Note that the first entry of the numpy array changes when assigning a new value to the first entry of the ROOT vector.

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vec[0] = 42
print(
"Content of the numpy array after changing the first entry of the ROOT vector: {}".
format([x for x in array]))


Use numpy features on data of ROOT objects

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print("Mean of the numpy array entries: {}".format(np.mean(array)))