import ROOT,argparse pfilename="tpc/FOPI/par/padplane_FOPI.dat" pfile=open(pfilename,'r') xpos=[] ypos=[] hist=ROOT.TH2D("padp","padp",3000,-15,15,3000,-15,15) for line in pfile: if line[0]=='P': continue words=line.split() xpos.append(float(words[3])) ypos.append(float(words[4])) hist.Fill(xpos[-1],ypos[-1]) hist.Draw("colz") u=raw_input("bla")