Hands-On Genetic Algorithms with Python

Genetic algorithms solution

To identify the best set of features to be used for our Zoo classification task using a genetic algorithm, we've created the Python program 02-solve-zoo.py, which is located at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Genetic-Algorithms-with-Python/blob/master/Chapter07/02-solve-zoo.py.

As in the previous section, the chromosome representation that's being used here is a list of integers with the values of 0 or 1, denoting whether a feature should be used or dropped.

The following steps highlight the main parts of the program:

1. First, we need to create an instance of the Zoo class and pass our random seed along for the sake of producing repeatable results:

zoo = zoo.Zoo(RANDOM_SEED)

2. Since our goal is to maximize ...