Re: midi2ly failure

[address@hidden]

On 17 déc. 2012, at 18:13, Ben Rudiak-Gould <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:07 PM, address@hidden
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> ImportError: 
>> dlopen(/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lib/lilypond/current/python/midi.so,
>>  2): no suitable image found.  Did find:
>>        
>> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lib/lilypond/current/python/midi.so:
>>  mach-o, but wrong architecture
> 
> Incidentally, why is the midi parser written in C? It seems unlikely
> to be a time bottleneck since midi files are normally pretty small,
> and there's a lot of additional per-note processing written in Python.
> If it's just that no one has had the time to port it to Python, then I
> volunteer.
> 

Go for it - the code was written in 2001, maybe at a time when Python/computers 
were slower than they are now.  It's 500-ish lines, so good luck!

Cheers,
MS