I think I would try to put the soundfont loading inside a csound
instrument, and than call this instrument from python. Python could be
used for scanning a certain directory for all soundfont files, making
them available for loading.
I haven't done it this way with soundfonts, but routinely do it to
load samples into ftables, it should not be too hard.
Obviously, you would need to "embed csound" to do this, running python
and using csound as a module. But, it's the simplest way I know (not
suggesting that it is *the simplest* way).

Oeyvind

2008/5/8, Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard@gmail.com>:
> Hello.
> I'm writing a microtonal sequencer in Python/Tkinter.  For general
> output, my intention is to just implement OSC, at least at the
> beginning, rather than trying to embed Csound.  But I'd also like to
> enable users to load soundfont files and use them for playback
> internally (since I don't intend to do any MIDI output).
> Can anyone tell me, would it be simplest to use the Python Csound API
> to load and manipulate soundfonts, or is there some other library that
> I might use?
>
> I am also joining the queue of those interested in but uncertain about
> using the Python Csound API, but I haven't yet read through all of the
> relevant posts and documents, so I'll ask more about that bit later.
>
> -Chuckk
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