At least it's less magic than puLP: prob += x*2 + y, "foo" This sets the objective function of prob to (2x+y), and assigns it a name of "foo". prob += x*

At least it's less magic than puLP: prob += x*2 + y, "foo" This sets the objective function of prob to (2x+y), and assigns it a name of "foo". prob += x*2 + y > 3, "abcd" That puts a constraint that 2x + y > 3, called "abcd". On both of these the string is optional. I'm also conflicted. On one hand, it's about the most compact syntax you can get for something like this - when similar libraries in languages without operator overloading resort to passing strings into functions... On the other hand, it can be utterly incomprehensible if you haven't gone through the documentation.