Gurobi Python code to print non-binding constraints?

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February 10, 2023 01:08

Hello good people,

How can I correctly write/save the model.lp file to store non-binding constraints as well?

When I write the model.lp file, most constraints are found formulated as expected. However, LHS of non-binding constraint (constraints that do not contain any decision variables) is empty in the .lp file.

part of model.lp file
 C_available_resources[m,s16]: deploy[s16,o186,m] + deploy[s16,o217,m]  <= 300
 C_available_resources[c,s16]: deploy[s16,o186,c] + deploy[s16,o217,c]<= 10
 C_available_resources[i,s16]: deploy[s16,o186,i] + deploy[s16,o217,i]<= 30
 C_max_distance[s2,o186]: <= 0
 C_max_distance[s2,o217]: <= 0
 C_max_distance[s18,o186]: <= -1

# a binding constraint (deploy[] is a decision variable
C_available_resources = model2.addConstrs((gp.quicksum(deploy[s, o, r] for o in OilSpills)
                                           <= Availability[s, r] for s in Stations for r in ResourcesD),
                                          name='C_available_resources')
# a non-binding constraint
C_max_distance = model2.addConstrs((Distance[s, o] <= DistanceMax for s in Stations for o in OilSpills),
                                   name='C_max_distance')

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Simranjit Kaur

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November 13, 2026 01:49
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Riley Clement

Gurobi Staff

February 10, 2023 01:26
Hi Tanmoy,

If there are no Gurobi variables in your expression, then it is not really a constraint (nothing is being constrained).

Are you perhaps just wanting to calculate the maximum of the numbers stored in the Distance dictionary? If so you can define DistanceMax like so
```
DistanceMax = max(Distance.values())
```
and then use it in your model.

- Riley
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Tanmoy Das

February 10, 2023 01:37
Well, actually Distance[s, o] is more of a Pairing of index between s & o. Just like Pairing(i,j) example in the following example https://gurobi.github.io/modeling-examples/customer_assignment/customer_assignment.html

But, I want to use it as constraint so that this constraint would be violates sometimes based on certain conditions. So, I used all values as pair index.
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Riley Clement

Gurobi Staff

February 10, 2023 01:46
Hi Tanmoy,

If you want a list of pairings (s,o) where Distance[s,o] is less than DistanceMax then you can create this like so
```
[index for index,distance in Distance.items() if distance <= DistanceMax]
```
- Riley
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