From https://stackoverflow.com/a/41153081

Needed for python2.7 compatibility

The XML files need to follow the structure where at the end is a closer file.
compactFile takes multiple arguments, or multiple instances of compactFile or both.

  ddsim --compactFile $DD4hep/examples/CLICSiD/compact/SiD_multiple_inputs.xml $DD4hep/examples/CLICSiD/compact/SiD_detectors_1.xml --compactFile $DD4hep/examples/CLICSiD/compact/SiD_detectors_2.xml $DD4hep/examples/CLICSiD/compact/SiD_close.xml --runType shell

Per #883 diquarks are treated as stable by geant4 but they can have nominally non-zero travel times inside an event graph and should be explicitly rejected.

this worked accidentally in python2, but now the dictionary order is fixed and isotrop was set to false when parsing the default values, because it happens after the setting of distribution now