[Tutor] Genetic module recommendations?

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Aug 18 22:02:35 CEST 2012


On 18/08/2012 20:24, Modulok wrote:
> List,
>
> I'm looking for a good genetic module. (Stable, well documented, pythonic,
> etc.)
>
> I'm writing a breeding simulator where users select parent organisms to breed
> based on traits they favor, e.g: eye color, height, etc. The human player is
> the fitness function. I guess this is "artificial selection"? After breeding
> the user gets an offspring which carries traits from its parents.
>
> It's only a game and a crude approximation of nature at best. However, the
> algorithm has to be stable enough this can go on for several hundred
> generations without entropy reducing to the point of haulting evolution. On the
> other hand, I don't want so much entropy that it's reduce to a random search.
>
> Before I write my own, I thought I'd ask to see if there was a third party,
> de-facto standard Python genetic module. Or at least one that is highly
> recommended.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
> -Modulok-
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Have you looked on pypi? 
http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=genetic&submit=search

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.



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