minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.10.0

Added

• Add the Instance.diverse_solutions method to use the MiniZinc experimental feature to model diversity and try and find a set of diverse solutions for the given problem.

Removed

• BREAKING: The project no longer supports Python 3.7. This change will make it easier to manage MiniZinc Python's build system.

Changed

• Minimum supported version of MiniZinc has increased from 2.5.4 to 2.6.0.
• Instance.solutions is now able to use the intermediate_solutions flag correctly and will only yield a single solution when it is set to False.
• helpers.check_solution now includes an optional time limit flag. If the time limit is exceeded, then a TimeoutError exception will be raised.
• helpers.check_solution will no longer capture MiniZinc exceptions. Capturing these exceptions sometimes hid problems.
• The timeout parameter has been renamed to time_limit in Instance.solve, Instance.solve_async, and Instance.solutions. The timeout parameter is still accepted, but will add a DeprecationWarning and will be removed in future versions.
• The intermediate_solutions parameter can now be explicitly set to False to avoid the -i flag to be passed to MiniZinc, which is generally added to ensure that a final solution is available.

Fixed

• Fix problem where some exceptions when creating processes where hidden and would then cause errors where the proc variable did not exist.
• Fix issue where MiniZinc would not correctly be terminated on Windows when the Python process was interrupted.

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Published by Dekker1 12 months ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.9.0

Added

• Add support for MiniZinc tuple and record types.

Changed

• Minimum supported version of MiniZinc has increased from 2.5.0 to 2.5.4.

Fixed

• Ensure time events send using the JSON stream are parsed as timedelta objects.
• Pass JSON definitions in using JSON instead of generated DZN files.

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Published by Dekker1 almost 3 years ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.8.0

This release concerned mostly some of the internals of the Python package, and its dependency management. The little external changes are listed below.

Removed

• BREAKING: The project no longer supports Python 3.6. This change will make it easier to manage MiniZinc Python's build system.

Fixed

• Fix the conversion when using a Python enumerated type in MiniZinc that uses non-ascii identifiers.

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Published by Dekker1 about 3 years ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.7.0

Added

• Add additional Driver.executable property to safely access the location of the executable used by the Driver object.
• Support for input and output of complex MiniZinc enumerated types, such as anonymous enumerated types or enumerated types using constructor functions.

Removed

• BREAKING: The project no longer contains the (uncompleted) direct library connection to libminizinc. With this change come some simplifications in methods of relocated from CLIDriver and CLIInstance, and the move of find_driver to Driver.find.

Fixed

• Store statistics as a string when incorrectly reported by the solver.
• Fix the conversion of statistics when using MiniZinc 2.6+

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Published by Dekker1 over 3 years ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.6.0

Added

• Add support for the usage of JSON Stream output when using MiniZinc 2.6+

Fixed

• Do not raise error about unsupported solver flags when MiniZinc driver would not raise an error.
• Fix warnings caused by unterminated coroutines when using the asynchronous iterators

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Published by Dekker1 almost 4 years ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.5.0

Added

• Add (generated) __version__ field to the package to abide by the PEP recommendations.
• Add support for using NumPy types to instantiate Models. (np.array and any type that falls under np.generic).
• Add available_solvers method to the Driver objects to explicitly report the available solvers according to the current environment.
• Add support for Python 3.10.

Changed

• BREAKING: Update minimal supported MiniZinc version to 2.5.0 to ensure full functionality.
• Remove the (additional) hard time-out in from the CLI driver. MiniZinc should correctly enforce set time limit.
• Solver.lookup now has an extra refresh argument to signal whether the driver should refresh the found solver configurations.

Fixed

• Always close temporary files before removing them, so that if an exception is raised while a file is still open, it gets removed correctly on Windows.
• Set the required process creation flags on Windows to allow MiniZinc to terminate its subprocesses correctly.
• Pass --intermediate-solutions flag when -i or -a is supported by the solver.
• Pygments parser generated by Iro did not contain the correct #pop rules. The parser was manually edited to work correctly, but we can no longer generate is automatically unless the bug in upstream Iro is resolved.
• Resolve a syntax error (a missing semicolon) in the meta-heuristics example in the documentation.
• Correctly pass the -O0 flag to the CLI when optimisation_level is set to zero.
• Set type of MiniZinc annotation output type ann to str in Python in accordance with the JSON output format.

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Published by Dekker1 over 4 years ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.4.2

Fixed

• Terminate the MiniZinc process when stopping early (instead of killing it). This allows MiniZinc to correctly stop any solver processes.

Changed

• Revert change from 0.4.1 where enumerated types unknown to Python would be made stored as anonymous enumerations. Interoperability between the MiniZinc driver and the MiniZinc Python has instead changed to allow JSON strings as valid input for enumerated types. (required MiniZinc 2.5.3)

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Published by Dekker1 about 5 years ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.4.1

Added

• Support for Python 3.9. (MiniZinc Python will aim to support all versions of Python that are not deprecated)
• Experimental support for capturing the error output of the MiniZinc process in CLIInstance.
• Experimental support for verbose compiler and solver output (using the -v flag) in CLIInstance.

Changed

• The MiniZinc Python repository moved from GitLab to GitHub, replacing GitLab CI for GitHub Actions for the continuous testing.
• Values of an enumerated type defined in MiniZinc will now appear in solutions as a member of a singular anonymous enum.Enum class.

Fixed

• Handle the cancellation of asynchronous solving and correctly dispose of the process
• Correct the JSON representation of sets of with IntEnum members. (Lists are still not correctly represented).
• check_solution will now correctly handle solution values of an enumerated type defined in MiniZinc.

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Published by Dekker1 over 5 years ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.4.0

Changed

• The check_solution has been split into two separate functions. The check_result function allows the user to check the correctness of a Result object and the new check_solution function can check the correctness of an individual solution in the form of a data class object or a dictionary.
• Model.add_file no longer has its parse_data flag enabled by default.

Fixed

• Catch lark ImportError before LarkError during Model.add_file() since LarkError will not exist if the import failed.
• Ensure a DZN file does not get included if its data is parsed.

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Published by Dekker1 over 5 years ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.3.3

Added

• Add requiredFlags field to the Solver data class.

Fixed

• Ignore extra (undocumented) fields from MiniZinc's --solvers-json output when initialising Solver objects.

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Published by Dekker1 over 5 years ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.3.2

Fixed

• Add full support for string input and output. The usage of strings would previously incorrectly give a warning.

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Published by Dekker1 over 5 years ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.3.1

Changed

• Store path of loaded solver configuration paths so that no configuration file has to be generated if no changes are made to the solver.

Fixed

• Ensure generated solver configurations exists during the full existence of the created asynchronous process.

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Published by Dekker1 over 5 years ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.3.0

Added

• Add support for different MiniZinc compiler optimisation levels. All methods that compile an instance now have an additional optimisation_level argument.

Changed

• The DZN parser functionality has been moved into the dzn extra. If your application requires parsed dzn information, then you have to ensure your MiniZinc Python is installed with this extra enabled: pip install minizinc[dzn].
• Solver has been turned into a dataclass and has been updated with all attributes used in the compiler.

Fixed

• Resolve relative paths when directly loading a solver configuration. This ensures that when a temporary solver configuration is created, the paths are correct.

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Published by Dekker1 over 5 years ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.2.3

Changed

• Add text to the empty MiniZincError that occurs when MiniZinc exits with a non-zero exit status

Fixed

• Close generated solver configuration before handing it to MiniZinc. This fixes the usage of generated solver configurations on Windows.
• The DZN parser now constructs correct range objects. The parser was off by one due to the exclusive upper bound in Python range objects.
• Rewrite MiniZinc fields that are keywords in Python. These names cannot be used directly as members of a dataclass. Python keywords used in MiniZinc are rewritten to "mzn_" + {keyword} and a warning is thrown.

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Published by Dekker1 over 5 years ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.2.2

Added

• Add output property to CLIInstance to expose the output interface given by MiniZinc.

Changed

• Improved interaction with solution checker models. Solution checkers can now be added to an `Instance/Model and an check method will be added to the generated solution objects.
• Change the Python packaging system back to setuptools due to the excessive required dependencies of Poetry.

Fixed

• Fix the MiniZinc output parsing of sets of an enumerated type.
• Fix the TypeError that occurred when a hard timeout occurred.
• Allow trailing commas for sets and arrays in DZN files.

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Published by Dekker1 over 5 years ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.2.1

Added

• Add support for other command line flags for CLIInstance.flatten() through the use of **kwargs.
• Add initial Checker class to allow the usage of MiniZinc solution checkers.

Changed

• The string method for Result will now refer to the string method of its Solution attribute.

Fixed

• Ensure the event loop selection on Windows to always selects ProactorEventLoop. This ensures the usage on Windows when the python version <= 3.8.0.

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Published by Dekker1 over 5 years ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.2.0

Added

• Support and testing for Python 3.8
• Logging of started processes and attributes of generated output items
• Export Pygments Lexer for MiniZinc

Changed

• Driver.check_version now raises an ConfigurationError exception when an incompatible function is detected; otherwise, the method not return a value.
• Output classes generated by CLIIinstance.analyse() no longer contain the _output_item str attribute when MiniZinc does not find a output item. (New in MiniZinc 2.3.3)
• Improved parsing of non-standard (numerical) statistical information provided by the solver.

Fixed

• CLIInstance.solutions(): The separator detection is now OS independent. The separator previously included a \n literal instead of \r\n on Windows.
• Solve an issue in CLIInstance.solution() where a solution with a size bigger than the buffer size would result in a LimitOverrunError exception.
• Correctly catch the asyncio.TimeoutError and kill the process when reaching a hard timeout. (i.e., the solver and minizinc do not stop in time)
• Check if file exists before opening file when an error occurs. (File might have been part of a compiled solver)
• Ensure the objective attribute is only added to the generated solution type once
• Remove '\r' characters from input when parsing statistics (Windows Specific).

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Published by Dekker1 over 5 years ago

minizinc - MiniZinc Python 0.1.0

Initial release of MiniZinc Python. This release contains an initial functionality to use MiniZinc directly from Python using an interface to the minizinc command line application. The exact functionality available in this release is best described in the documentation.

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Published by Dekker1 over 5 years ago