Answer 1

What about this https://www.twilio.com/blog/working-with-midi-data-in-JUMP_LINK__&&__python__&&__JUMP_LINK-using-mido

Answer 2

Have you try this library: https://github.com/louisabraham/python3-midi/blob/master/README.mediawiki ?

Not sure if it's the same wich has been rewritten for python3 (I never use it nor python-midi), but it seems to have similar functionalities ;)