Re: Lilypond and Python

[Martín Rincón Botero]

Hi Stefan. I remember having to make my version of Python 3 (3.6 I think) the system default (yours is 2.7) for abjad to work. I also remember having to install some things as root for it to work (you have a “Permission Denied” somewhere...). I read somewhere it’s not recommendable to use root with pip, but it worked with no discernible side effects. 

Cheers,
Martín.

www.martinrinconbotero.com

On 1. Nov 2020, 14:01 +0100, Stefan Thomas <kontrapunktstefan@gmail.com>, wrote:

Dear community,

I tried to install abjad with

pip install abjad 

And I got:

Collecting abjad
 Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f7/2f/23b14c7ff2ca1a5728e81fc1b5960374ec444efad43b197dca009
53d90cc/Abjad-3.1.tar.gz
Could not import setuptools which is required to install from a source distribution.
Please install setuptools.                                                                                         
You are using pip version 9.0.3, however version 20.2.4 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command. 

And after

pip install --upgrade pip

I've got

Collecting pip
 Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/cb/28/91f26bd088ce8e22169032100d4260614fc3da435025ff389ef1d
396a433/pip-20.2.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: pip
 Found existing installation: pip 9.0.3
   Uninstalling pip-9.0.3:
     Successfully uninstalled pip-9.0.3
 Rolling back uninstall of pip
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                 
 File "/home/stefan/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main                     
   status = self.run(options, args)                                                                               
 File "/home/stefan/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run                 
   prefix=options.prefix_path,                                                                                    
 File "/home/stefan/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 784, in install                  
   **kwargs                                                                                                       
 File "/home/stefan/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 851, in install              
   self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)                                               
 File "/home/stefan/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files    
   isolated=self.isolated,                                                                                        
 File "/home/stefan/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 345, in move_wheel_files               
   clobber(source, lib_dir, True)                                                                                 
 File "/home/stefan/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 316, in clobber                        
   ensure_dir(destdir)                                                                                            
 File "/home/stefan/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 83, in ensure_dir             
   os.makedirs(path)                                                                                              
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs                                                           
   mkdir(name, mode)                                                                                              
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip-20.2.4.dist-info'               
You are using pip version 9.0.3, however version 20.2.4 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

What can I do know?

Thanks for Your help,

Stefan

Hey Megan,

I use a different approach, but have you checked Abjad already? https://abjad.github.io/index.html

Cheers
Martín.

www.martinrinconbotero.com
On 31. Oct 2020, 18:51 +0100, Megan Aldrich <maldrich@conncoll.edu>, wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a package that would allow me to output in a lilypond format from python? I found something through google searches and it’s poorly documented and hard to use. Is there something that you recommend using?
>
> Meg
> --
> Megan Aldrich
>
> Connecticut College