Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
  I need to connect ALSA MIDI programmatically, and will
prefer to use
 Python. 
Just run aconnect. :-)
  I perused a number of libraries, did not find an
obvious great
 or best. 
Making a connection should be a single function calls, it's either
"works" or "does not work".  Use whatever library you like (or use
pyalsa because it's somewhat official).
Regards,
Clemens