Hands-On Neuroevolution with Python

Working environment setup

Before you start writing the source code of the experiment runner, you must set up a virtual Python environment and install all the necessary dependencies. You can do this with Anaconda by executing the following commands in the command line:

$ conda create --name single_pole_neat python=3.5$ conda activate single_pole_neat$ pip install neat-python==0.92 $ conda install matplotlib$ conda install graphviz$ conda install python-graphviz

First, these commands create and activate a single_pole_neat virtual environment with Python 3.5. After that, the NEAT-Python library, version 0.92, is installed, along with the other dependencies used by our visualization utilities.