parse a midi file

[binaryjesus]

On Sep 16, 9:48 pm, Mr.SpOOn <mr.spoo... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to parse a midi file with Python. What I exactly need is the
> possibility to distinguish all notes in all channels in a midi file
> and put them in a list or something.
>
> I've found this:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sources/msg/22467419ad4bf416
>
> I'm not sure how it does work, but looking at the code I saw it can
> get input from the terminal, so I tried:
>
> python midi.py < mymidi.mid
>
> All it does is printing a lot of strange symbols.
>
> Do you know other easy way to parse a midi file in Python? Or how
> actually does this module work?
>
> Thanks,
> Carlo

hi, just looked at the code. try this

python midi.py -i mymidi.mid

to see all the debug information do
python midi.py -p -d -i mymidi.mid