Python Linear Programming on Ubuntu

[Fett]

On Sep 16, 9:44 pm, "Aaron \"Castironpi\" Brady"
<castiro... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 16, 9:25 pm, Fett <FettMan... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sep 16, 9:00 pm, "Aaron \"Castironpi\" Brady"
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> > <castiro... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sep 16, 8:50 pm, Fett <FettMan... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > 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.
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> > > > 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).
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> > > > 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.
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> > > > 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.
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> > > Google says:
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> > > about 254,000 for linear programming python.
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> > > Link 3 is:
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> > >http://wiki.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific/Libraries
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> > > Scroll down.
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> > 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.
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> > # 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
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> > 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.
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> If you can find one working in C, use ctypes to link into Python.  We
> can help you with that part.  It lets you pass primitive types,
> structs, arrays, pointers, to C modules and return values.  You need
> to know the C signatures to set up the Pythonized signatures.

Ok, it seems that I have found one (although without an integer
programming component): upon searching for glpk in the package manager
in ubuntu I found a package called cvxopt, it is a bit clunky
(compared to the niceness of lp_solve), but I think I can figure this
one out. Thanks all who answered.