Travelling salesman variation in python

[Richard Brodie]

"Duncan Smith" <buzzard at urubu.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> No, you're not.  I think simulated annealing is a decent candidate for this
> problem.  The difficulty (in my experience) is in finding decent parameters
> for the cooling schedule, so you can find good solutions in reasonable time.

The book, "Numerical Recipes" contains a description of simulating annealing,
giving the travelling salesman problem as an example. Extracts available online.