ortools-clone/tools

Introduction

This file describes how to use OR-Tools in python with the binary archives.

OR-Tools online documentation is here

Full installation instructions are located here

These modules have been tested under:

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and up (64 bit).
• CentOS 8 (64 bit).
• Debian 10 (64 bit).
• MacOS 10.15 Catalina (64 bit).
• Microsoft Windows with Visual Studio 2019 (64-bit)

Upon decompressing the archive, you will get the following structure:

or-tools/
  [LICENSE](LICENSE)                     <- Apache License
  [README.md](README.md)                 <- This file
  [examples/data/](examples/data)        <- Data for the examples
  [examples/python](examples/python)     <- Python examples
  [examples/notebook](examples/notebook) <- Jupyter/IPython notebooks

Installation

To install the package:

1. Make sure python and pip are installed

2. Make sure pip is up to date:

python -m pip -V

should return 9.0.1 otherwise, run: python -m pip install --upgrade --user pip

3. Fetch ortools from Pypi:

python -m pip install --upgrade --user ortools

It should pull the latest version of OR-Tools.

Run Examples

To run a first example:

python examples/python/hidato_table.py