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# Introduction
This is the documentation page for the Python 3.9+ wrapper of OR-Tools.
This project aim to explain how you build a Python native wheel package using
[`setup.py`](https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/).
## Table of Content
* [Requirement](#requirement)
* [Directory Layout](#directory-layout)
* [Build Process](#build-process)
* [Local Package](#local-package)
* [Building a native Package](#building-local-native-package)
* [Appendices](#appendices)
* [Resources](#resources)
* [Misc](#misc)
## Requirement
You'll need "Python >= 3.9" and few python modules ("wheel" and "absl-py").
## Directory Layout
* [setup.py.in](setup.py.in) `Setup.py` template to build the python native
project.
## Build Process
To Create a native dependent package which will contains two parts:
* A bunch of native libraries for the supported platform targeted.
* The Python code depending on it.
note: Since [Pypi.org](https://pypi.org/) support multiple packages, we will
simply upload one package per supported platform.
### Local Package
The pipeline for `linux-x86-64` should be as follow: \
note: The pipeline will be similar for other architectures, don't hesitate to
look at the CI log! ![Local Pipeline](docs/local_pipeline.svg)
![Legend](docs/legend.svg)
#### Building local native Package
Thus we have the C++ shared library `libortools.so` and the SWIG generated
Python wrappers e.g. `pywrapsat.py` in the same package.
Here some dev-note concerning this `setup.py`.
* This package is a native package containing native libraries.
Then you can generate the package and install it locally using:
```bash
python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
python3 -m pip install --user --find-links=dist ortools
```
If everything good the package (located in `<buildir>/python/dist`) should have
this layout:
```
{...}/dist/ortools-X.Y.9999-cp3Z-cp3Z-<platform>.whl:
\- ortools
\- __init__.py
\- .libs
\- libortools.so
\- constraint_solver
\- __init__.py
\- pywrapcp.py
\- _pywrapcp.so
\- ...
\- __init__.py
\- pywrap....py
\- _pywrap....so
...
```
note: `<platform>` could be `manylinux2014_x86_64`, `macosx_10_9_x86_64` or `win-amd64`.
tips: since wheel package are just zip archive you can use `unzip -l <package>.whl`
to study their layout.
## Appendices
Few links on the subject...
### Resources
* [Packaging Python Project](https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/)
* [PEP 513 -- A Platform Tag for Portable Linux Built Distributions](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0513/)
* [PEP 571 -- The manylinux2010 Platform Tag](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0571/)
* [PEP 600 Future 'manylinux' Platform Tags](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0600/)
## Misc
Image has been generated using [plantuml](http://plantuml.com/):
```bash
plantuml -Tsvg docs/{file}.dot
```
So you can find the dot source files in [docs](docs).