[Edu-sig] Python/Gecode - was "The study of fixed points has been at the foundation of algorithms"

[Laura Creighton]

There is also Gustavo Niemeyer's python-constraint package, which
is also very preliminary. 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2005-July/004153.html

Laura

In a message of Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:39:13 +0100, Grégoire Dooms writes:
>Mark Engelberg a écrit :
>
>>>An other area where I've been exposed ot fixed points is concurrent
>>>constraint programming where constraint propagators are applied to a
>>>computation space until a fixed point is reached (see for instance
>>>http://www.gecode.org/ for a Open source implementation).
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Does anyone know if Python bindings for the gecode library is in
>>development?  I could really use this on a project I'm working on.
>>  
>>
>I know this request is shared by several (current and potential) users 
>of gecode.
>I don't have the time to develop one before summer but I am (and will 
>be) trying to convince others to do it before.
>It might be easy to do by starting from the SWIG generated JAVA wrapper 
>which is currently under development.
>On the other hand Logilab.fr provides a Python-only constraint 
>programming lib based on the Mozart/Gecode idea of computation spaces 
>and cloning. But beware it is very preliminary: the only propagator 
>available is a generic, enumeration based, forward checking algo.
>
>HTH,
>--
>Grégoire
>
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