Re: convert-ly broken in 2.21.x?

[David Kastrup]

Stanton Sanderson <stansand@gmail.com> writes:

> I have had no response to my previous post, so I will try again.
>
> On Mac OS 10.14.6 (Mojave), running LilyPond directly from the application 
> and using Update Syntax” from the “Compile” menu, applying it to the “Welcome 
> to Lilypond” file after renaming it “test 1.ly”, the following error message 
> is produced:
>
> ---------
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File 
> "/Applications/LilyPond_2.21.4..app/Contents/Resources/bin/convert-ly", line 
> 86, in <module>
>     import convertrules
>   File 
> "/Applications/LilyPond_2.21.4..app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/python/convertrules.py",
>  line 26, in <module>
>     import lilylib
>   File 
> "/Applications/LilyPond_2.21.4..app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/python/lilylib.py",
>  line 30, in <module>
>     sys.stdin = codecs.getreader('utf8')(sys.stdin.detach())
> AttributeError: 'file' object has no attribute ‘detach'
> ————
>
> I saw the same behavior with 2.21.1 and 2.21.3 when I attempted to update 
> older files.
>
> What am I missing?

A recent enough version of Python?  Can you figure out what Python
version is used by your installation?

-- 
David Kastrup