[Tutor] Genetic module recommendations?

[Ryan Waples]

Not sure if it meets your needs, but you should at least check out simuPOP.


On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Modulok <modulok at gmail.com> 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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