Python wrapper for Ableton Link

This fork was created to streamline the user experience for installing LinkPython by uploading pre-built wheels on PyPI. More information about LinkPython can be found in their repository.

Python compatibility

	v1.0.0	v1.0.1	v1.0.4	v1.1.0	main
CPython 3.6	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
CPython 3.7	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
CPython 3.8	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
CPython 3.9	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
CPython 3.10	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
CPython 3.11	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅
CPython 3.12	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅
CPython 3.13	❌	❌	❌	✅¹	✅¹
CPython 3.14+	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌

¹ Free-threaded builds of CPython are not yet supported.

Installation

Distributions are available on PyPI with the LinkPython-extern package. Example install command:

pip install LinkPython-extern

Building from source

If you want to build this package from source, you will need CMake installed. You however do not need to manually build the project, as setuptools will handle invoking cmake when you install it with pip. To install directly from the main branch:

pip install git+https://github.com/thegamecracks/link-python

License:

This depends on Link and pybind11. Please mind the licenses of those libraries and their dependencies.