Frozen Messages

New in version 1.2.

Since Mido messages are mutable (can change) they can not be hashed or put in dictionaries. This makes it hard to use them for things like Markov chains.

In these situations you can use frozen messages:

from mido.frozen import FrozenMessage

msg = FrozenMessage('note_on')
d = {msg: 'interesting'}

Frozen messages are used and behave in exactly the same way as normal messages with one exception: attributes are not settable.

There are also variants for meta messages (FrozenMetaMessage and FrozenUnknownMetaMessage).

You can freeze and thaw messages with:

from mido.frozen import freeze_message, thaw_message

frozen = freeze_message(msg)
thawed = thaw_message(frozen)

thaw_message() will always return a copy. Passing a frozen message to freeze_message() will return the original message.

Both functions return None if you pass None which is handy for things like:

msg = freeze_message(port.receive())

for msg in map(freeze_message, port):
    ...

To check if a message is frozen:

from mido.frozen import is_frozen

if is_frozen(msg):
    ...