After looking through the mido versions, the required version should be 1.2.8, that's when clipping got implemented there.

I also added a commit to please the formatting restraints.

Hey, thanks for this. To be honest I don't think that corrupt MIDI files should be read in this manner - it seems dangerous to arbitrarily clip any non-127 data byte to 127. If a pretty_midi user wanted this behavior, I'd suggest they load in the MIDI file with mido with clip=True, write it out to a tempfile, and then read it in with pretty_midi. I could be convinced otherwise. Either way, you'd need to add the clip argument to the docstring.

Alright, I get where you're coming from. An explanation why it was useful for me:
I wanted to use pretty-midi to analyze and convert large sets of midi files.
Having files in there which stop the whole process is pretty cumbersome, especially if you can be tolerant for some values being off.

I switched from mido to pretty-midi in my code and had to change it anyway for me to work.
And since another user requested this too, I added the PR.
Let me know if you want to pull or not, I will add the docstring then.

In that case I would suggest wrapping your MIDI file loading in a try/except and skipping the problematic files. If a data byte is > 127 I would treat the file as corrupt, i.e. not useful.