Hands-On Genetic Algorithms with Python

Creating the population

The init.py file of the tools module contains several functions that can be useful for creating and initializing the population for the genetic algorithm. One particularly useful function is initRepeat(), which accepts three arguments:

• The container type in which we would like to put the resulting objects
• The function used to generate objects that will be put into the container
• The number of objects we want to generate

For example, the following line of code will produce a list of 30 random numbers between 0 and 1:

randomList = tools.initRepeat(list, random.random, 30)

In this example, list is the type serving as the container to be filled, random.random is the generator function, and 30 is the number of times we ...