lindo 13.0.0

Python interface to LINDO API

The Python Interface to LINDO API.

This package requires LINDO API 13.0 and a valid license key. Please refer to INSTALL for installation details. An environment variable named LINDOAPI_HOME needs to be created before building, and using the Lindo API.

Using Windows

On the command line

> set LINDOAPI_HOME="c:/lindoapi"

Using Mac or Linux

On the command line

$ export LINDOAPI_HOME="/opt/lindoapi"

How to download

This python package can be downloaded with pip

> pip install lindo

How to build

To build the python package on any operating system first start by creating a whl file. form the top of the lindoapi-python directory run the command.

> python -m build

If the command is successful a new directory named dist is created in the lindoapi-python directory. The new directory will have a two files with extension .whl and .tat.gz. For example, if you built it on Mac OS using Python 3.10 the new directory will look like this.

├── dist
│  ├── lindo-1.0.2-cp310-cp310-macosx_10_9_universal2.whl
│  └── lindo-1.0.2.tar.gz

The package can now be installed locally using the command.

> pip install dist/*.whl

Testing installation

A quick way to test the installation is to run

> python -m lindo_test

If the test is successful, you can now import the lindo python library and start using it.

import lindo