Re: Errors with midi2ly and musicxml2ly

[Aaron Hill]

On 2019-11-19 3:29 pm, Артем Тартаковский wrote:
> I've tried to convert a MIDI file into LilyPond (version 2-19.83-1) 
> using
> the command prompt, but it gives me an error:
>
>   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\midi2ly.py", line 545
>     sys.stderr.write ("SKIP: %s\n" % `e`)
>                                      ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> What's the problem with the code?

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.


-- Aaron Hill