PyGLPK Readme

Copyright (c) 2007, 2008, Thomas W. Finley

Overview

PyGLPK is a Python module which encapsulates the functionality of the GNU Linear Programming Kit (GLPK). The GLPK allows one to specify linear programs (LPs) and mixed integer programs (MIPs), and to solve them with either simplex, interior-point, or branch-and-bound algorithms. The goal of PyGLPK is to give one access to all documented functionality of GLPK.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Availability

To get the lastest version, see: http://tfinley.net/software/pyglpk/

Documentation

The HTML documentation included with the release in the directory html contains information on building, testing, installation and documentation of all features of the module.

Building and Installing

Building this module requires that the user have installed the GLPK 4.18 or later and GMP libraries. The module builds and appears to work on my test files in Python 2.4, and 2.5, with GLPK 4.18 through 4.31. Earlier versions of Python and GLPK will not work.

Ideally, the following will work:

 * make
 * make test
 * make install, or perhaps sudo make install

See the HTML documentation for troubleshooting information.

Bugs and Commentary

Please send information on issues of usage to Thomas Finley at [email protected] .

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Thomas Finley, 2007, 2008