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# problem.setOutputEnabled

Purpose

Enables or disables writing Optimizer messages to the Python output stream.

Synopsis
`problem.setOutputEnabled(enabled)`
Argument

enabled | True if Optimizer messages should be written to the Python output stream for this problem, False otherwise.

Further information
By default, Optimizer messages are printed to stdout. This behaviour can be disabled for a given problem by calling problem.setOutputEnabled with argument False. This does not affect user message callbacks added with problem.addMessageCallback.
Related topics
problem.getOutputEnabled, xpress.setOutputEnabled, problem.addMessageCallback, problem.removeMessageCallback.
Parent Topic Xpress problem object methods

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