Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Search

Formulating the search problem

In a file searching application, we start searching from the current directory, so our initial state is the current directory. Now, let's write the code for the state and the initial state, as follows:

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In the preceding screenshot, we have created two Python modules, State.py and StateTest.py. The State.py module will contain the code for the three search ingredients mentioned in the previous section. The StateTest module is a file where we can test these ingredients.

Let's go ahead and create a constructor and a function that returns an initial state, as shown in the following code:

....import os