What is MIPCL-PY

MIPCL-PY is a Python module designed for rapid development of MIPCL-applications. Its functionality is very similar to that of MIPshell.

Not everybody, who applies optimization in practice, knows C++. Python is easy for beginners, and therefore we believe that MIPCL-PY can be useful for writing application prototypes.

MIPCL-PY comprises:

• shared MIPCL-library mipcl.so (mipcl.pyd on windows computers) with an additional interface for calling it in Python programs;
• module mipshell.py with a collection of Python classes that represent variables, constraints, and optimization problems.

Currently, MIPCL-PY implements only a part of functions available in MIPshell. In particular, MIPCL-PY does not allow us to develop applications that generate cuts because it is not efficient to implement such applications in script programming languages.

Important Notes

• Under Win64: it currently only works with Python 2.7 and 3.5
• Under Linux: Please change <MIPCL path>/mipcl_py/mipshell/mipcl-py*.so to match your version

Author: Nicolai N. Pisaruk

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