This file describes how to use OR-Tools in python with the binary archives. OR-Tools is located at https://developers.google.com/optimization Full installation instructions are located at: https://developers.google.com/optimization/introduction/installing/binary These modules have been tested under: - Ubuntu 14.04 and up, CentOS 7, Debian 9. - Mac OS X El Capitan with Xcode 7.x (64 bit). - Microsoft Windows with Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 (64-bit) Upon decompressing the archive, you will get the following structure: or-tools/ LICENSE-2.0.txt <- Apache License README <- This file data/ <- Data for the examples examples/ examples/python <- Python examples examples/notebook <- Jupyter/IPython notebooks To install the package : 1/Make sure python and pip are installed 2/Make sure pip is up to date: pip -V should return 9.0.1 otherwise, run: pip install --upgrade pip 3/Fetch ortools from Pypi: pip install --upgrade ortools It should pull the latest version of or-tools. 4/Run a first example: python examples/python/hidato_table.py