Python Linear Programming on Ubuntu

[Fett]

On Sep 16, 9:00 pm, "Aaron \"Castironpi\" Brady"
<castiro... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 16, 8:50 pm, Fett <FettMan... at gmail.com> 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:
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> about 254,000 for linear programming python.
>
> Link 3 is:
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> 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.