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Thank you for sharing! I tried to see if I could replicate the result (unlikely, as I'm not a cosmologist, just a Python developer), but it's not possible:

- They don't share all the input data, including something called "`.FITRES` calibration files" which seem to be necessary - the first command, `python BuildPP.py`, fails because it can't find `Pantheon/calibration_files/FITOPT000_MUOPT000.FITRES`.

- Some code must be meant to be run with a different Python interpreter than the rest, because the syntax is not compatible with the only version mentioned in the project (see below).

The project also has some troublesome but not fatal flaws:

- No exact information about Python version. The only hint I could find was the mention of needing Python 2.7 (two years EOL when the repo was created).

- No information at all about dependency versions. The project needs matplotlib, numpy, pandas, and pymultinest, but there's nothing about which versions of any of these were used for the analysis.



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