Re: Errors with midi2ly and musicxml2ly

[Aaron Hill]

On 2019-11-20 12:00 am, Артем Тартаковский wrote:
> ср, 20 нояб. 2019 г., 2:00 Aaron Hill <address@hidden>:
> > It's a compatibility issue between Python 2 and 3.  The backtick
> > operator was removed [1] in Python 3, in favor of the repr() 
> > procedure.
> >
> > [1]: 
> > https://portingguide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/syntax.html#backticks
> >
> > It is my understanding the scripts shipping with LilyPond are not
> > expected to be interpretable by Python 3 yet.
>
> So what do I have to replace this construction with?

Near as I can tell, it's a simple replacement of `foo` with repr(foo).  
So, you could potentially run the scripts through the following sed 
command:

  sed -i~ 's/`\([^`]*\)`/repr(\1)/g' *.py


-- Aaron Hill