Python Optimization Modeling: optlang

Example with Transportation Model from (1) taken from the optlang docs:

from optlang import Variable, Constraint, Objective, Model # Define problem parameters # Note this can be done using any of Python's data types. Here we have chosen dictionaries supply = {"Seattle": 350, "San_Diego": 600} demand = {"New_York": 325, "Chicago": 300, "Topeka": 275} distances = { # Distances between locations in thousands of miles "Seattle": {"New_York": 2.5, "Chicago": 1.7, "Topeka": 1.8}, "San_Diego": {"New_York": 2.5, "Chicago": 1.8, "Topeka": 1.4} } freight_cost = 9 # Cost per case per thousand miles # Define variables variables = {} for origin in supply: variables[origin] = {} for destination in demand: # Construct a variable with a name, bounds and type var = Variable(name="{}_to_{}".format(origin, destination), lb=0, type="integer") variables[origin][destination] = var # Define constraints constraints = [] for origin in supply: const = Constraint( sum(variables[origin].values()), ub=supply[origin], name="{}_supply".format(origin) ) constraints.append(const) for destination in demand: const = Constraint( sum(row[destination] for row in variables.values()), lb=demand[destination], name="{}_demand".format(destination) ) constraints.append(const) # Define the objective obj = Objective( sum(freight_cost * distances[ori][dest] * variables[ori][dest] for ori in supply for dest in demand), direction="min" ) # We can print the objective and constraints print(obj) print("") for const in constraints: print(const) print("") # Put everything together in a Model model = Model() model.add(constraints) # Variables are added implicitly model.objective = obj # Optimize and print the solution status = model.optimize() print("Status:", status) print("Objective value:", model.objective.value) print("") for var in model.variables: print(var.name, ":", var.primal)

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/optlang/1.1.1
• http://optlang.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Some other Python based options are Pulp, Pyomo and PyMathprog (2).

References

1. G.B.Dantzig, Linear Programming and Extensions, Princeton University Press, 1963
2. PyMathProg: another Python based modeling tool: http://yetanothermathprogrammingconsultant.blogspot.com/2016/12/pymathprog-another-python-based.html