Fett wrote:
I am trying to find a wrapper to do linear programming within python.
I am using an ubuntu machine and I have apt-get'd lp_solve, which
works just fine. If someone knows of a wrapper that will work with
that that'd be great.
I also heard that scipy has a wrapper, however, I can't find any
documentation on it, nor can I seem to find it with dir(). If anyone
knows where there is good documentation on this I would love to use
that (the more native to python the better imo).
No, scipy doesn't have such a wrapper, sorry.
I have tried many things, including
http://lpsolve.sourceforge.net/5.5/Python.htm,
openopt, and cvxopt. I can't seem to find any with enough
documentation to get me off the ground. Some I can't compile, some I
can't even find out how to compile.
If anyone knows of an LP package (preferably with IP as well, like
lp_solve has), that interfaces well with python and has enough
documentation to get a dependency newb like myself off the ground that
would be great.
PuLP should be fairly easy to build against GLPK or COIN (provided you have them
installed; I'm pretty sure Ubuntu has a GLPK package but I'm not sure about
COIN), but you will have to edit the Makefile for your system:
http://www.jeannot.org/~js/code/index.en.html#PuLP
You can ask on scipy-users about OpenOpt, and hopefully Dmitrey will be able to
help you. If you want to get cvxopt or the Python wrappers in lp_solve itself
working, I suggest asking their mailing lists.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
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