README for pydirect

DIRECT is a method to solve global bound constraint optimization problems and was originally developed by D. R. Jones, C. D. Perttunen and B. E. Stuckmann.

pydirect is a python wrapper around DIRECT. It enables using DIRECT from the comfort of the great Python scripting language.

The pydirect package uses the fortan implementation of DIRECT written by Joerg.M.Gablonsky, DIRECT Version 2.0.4. More information on the DIRECT algorithm can be found in Gablonsky's thesis.

Installing

Use setup.py:

python setup.py install

Reading the docs

After installing:

cd doc
make html

Then, direct your browser to build/html/index.html.

Testing

To run the tests with the interpreter available as python, use:

cd test
python test_direct.py

Conditions for use

pydirect is open-source code released under the MIT License.

Contributing

For bug reports use the Bitbucket issue tracker. You can also send wishes, comments, patches, etc. to amitibo@tx.technion.ac.il

Acknowledgement

Thank-you to the people at <http://wingware.com/> for their policy of free licenses for non-commercial open source developers.