Hello, I'd like to experiment with Python, connecting my Linux PC with MIDI device (standard synthesiser keyboard).
I am pretty new to the Python world, so the questions that crop up, I assume, could be pretty basic to someone who had spent some time with it. So, here comes: 1) Is everything what could be done with Python in some IDE (Eclipse for me), can be accomplished in the interactive console? I mean, perhaps Python could be used just as programming language and compiled in binary code, thus allowing access to some binary libraries what might not be accessible from within the interpreter. 2) Is there a way how to run Python script in event-driven mode, ie, run the script, it registers some function as keyboard event handler, and then calls that function whenever I press any key. Is such behaviour possible in the interactive mode? Since I want to test the MIDI message exchange, having a function sitting on the timer event is what I'll need for playback, and an event that is triggered by incoming MIDI message for recording. 3) Of course, I need some Python module to actually get this MIDI communication happen. Sending and receiving MIDI messages to and from my MIDI device. 4) As for manipulating the MIDI files in Python, I have searched up this: http://www.mxm.dk/products/public/pythonmidi However, this lib doesn't try to provide actual communication with MIDI device. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
