Super simple Python wrapper for LKH-3
Project description
PyLKH
This is a super simple Python wrapper for the constrained traveling salesman and vehicle routing problem solver called LKH-3.
If you want to use this wrapper, you need to install LKH-3 first:
wget http://akira.ruc.dk/~keld/research/LKH-3/LKH-3.0.6.tgz
tar xvfz LKH-3.0.6.tgz
cd LKH-3.0.6
make
sudo cp LKH /usr/local/bin
LKH-3 expects problems in the TSPLIB95 format. Using PyLKH you can solve problems represented as Python objects (via tsplib95) or files.
CAUTION: distances are represented by integer values in the TSPLIB format. This can produce unexpected behaviour for some problems, like those with all nodes within the unit square. You can scale all coordinates by a large number to avoid this.
Install
pip install lkh
Example
import requests
import tsplib95
import lkh
problem_str = requests.get('http://vrp.atd-lab.inf.puc-rio.br/media/com_vrp/instances/A/A-n32-k5.vrp').text
problem = tsplib95.parse(problem_str)
solver_path = '../LKH-3.0.6/LKH'
lkh.solve(solver_path, problem=problem, max_trials=10000, runs=10)
Output:
[[26, 7, 13, 17, 19, 31, 21],
[24, 27],
[14, 28, 11, 4, 23, 3, 2, 6],
[29, 18, 8, 9, 22, 15, 10, 25, 5, 20],
[12, 1, 16, 30]]
API
lkh.solve(solver='LKH', problem=None, **kwargs)
Solve a problem.
Parameters
solver (str, optional): Path to LKH-3 executable.
problem (tsplib95.models.StandardProblem, optional): Problem object. problem
or problem_file
is required.
kwargs (optional): Any LKH-3 parameter described here (pg. 5-7). Lowercase works. For example: runs=10
.
Returns
routes (list): List of lists of nodes.
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