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Set up your Insight Python Development Environment

If you wish to use Python for your optimization model, you must perform some additional installation tasks prior to beginning work. Starting with FICO® Xpress 8.9, and FICO® Xpress Insight 4.53, you are able to develop Xpress Insight apps starting from a pure Python model.

New Developers

New developers will benefit from understanding the concepts and components that comprise the FICO Xpress Optimization Suite. For more information, see Concepts and Components. There are a number of tasks you must complete before you can begin developing Insight Python apps.

Notes for Insight Developers with Mosel experience

Xpress has implemented Python integration through a Python module named xpressinsight to enable the development of Xpress Insight apps in Python. The entire app is written in the Python programming language. The Mosel modeling language is not used. There is no relation between the xpressinsight Python module and the python3 Mosel module. They are technically completely different.
Note: The python3 Mosel module extends the Mosel modeling language to allow Python commands to be executed from within Mosel. It is not possible to use any Mosel module in Python. In particular, it is not possible to use the python3 Mosel module in Python.

The python3 executable on Linux and Mac must not be confused with the python3 Mosel module.

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