On Sep 16, 9:00 pm, "Aaron \"Castironpi\" Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 16, 8:50 pm, Fett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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). > > > I have tried many things, > > includinghttp://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. > > Google says: > > about 254,000 for linear programming python. > > Link 3 is: > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific/Libraries > > Scroll down.
Yes, many of those seem to be deprecated, without destinations to links, most are poorly or not documented at all. The few that are, I still can't get running. Of those 254, I think I have tried at least 10 pages worth. Still no luck. # lpsolvpy - Can't get it to compile - dependency problems. # Lp_solve5 - NO python binding yet. Volunteers needed for python bindings. # pycplex - You need to compile the CPX.so module. Change the required paths to CPLEX, Python and numpy in the Makefile, and type "make". Not sure what to do here. # GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) - Hrm... might be something here, I missed the second link to the python bindings, looked all over the glpk site for anything about python. # SciPy -- http://www.scipy.org - supposedly has this, but as I said, I can't find any mention of it anywhere but on the site you linked. # pySimplex - (broken link)(broken link) # Simplex - link is broken, but nothing is mentioned I'll take a closer look at glpk's python bindings and if there is any documentation on them, maybe I'll have some luck. btw, I have been looking for something that works, I have over 5 packages on my desktop that I have tried to get up and running, but none of them seem to work. glpk makes 6. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
