[LAD] jack midi python

Hi folks, I'm trying to write a small utility in python that will help me redirect and route midi and osc to various software through jack. I'm finding that mididings, which I am a big fan of, doesn't quite fit for this particular task, so I started to look for other midi manipulation modules. Though there seems to be a dizzying array of modules that are designed for handling various midi tasks from python, I have settled on the two separate rtmidi ports: python-rtmidi (http://trac.chrisarndt.de/code/wiki/python-rtmidi) and rtmidi-python (https://github.com/superquadratic/rtmidi-python). My question is for those that have used either or both modules for their software: Can you recommend one over the other, and for what reasons? So far in my experimentation I've had trouble running rtmidi-python in a Python3 environment. NOTE: As these kinds of threads tend to digress here quite frequently, I'd like to emphasize that I'm not interested in whether python is the right language for this kind of thing, or whether midi on linux is bad/good, etc. -- I really don't care. I'm just interested in whether anyone has used the abovementioned modules and if they have pros/cons for one or the other. Many thanks.