Why not make chromosome itself a class? class BasicChromosome(object): def __init__(self, data): self.data = data
def crossover(self): [stuff here] You can subclass this as needed, altering the crossover method as necessary. ...perhaps I didn't understand your question. -Steven On Jan 27, 2008 6:35 PM, Wildemar Wildenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Max wrote: > > In GAs, you operate on a Population of solutions. Each Individual from > > the Population is a potential solution to the problem you're > > optimizing, and Individuals have what's called a chromosome - a > > specification of what it contains. For example, common chromosomes are > > bit strings, lists of ints/floats, permutations...etc. I'm stuck on > > how to implement the different chromosomes. I have a Population class, > > which is going to contain a list of Individuals. Each individual will > > be of a certain chromosome. I envision the chromosomes as subclasses > > of an abstract Individual class, perhaps all in the same module. I'm > > just having trouble envisioning how this would be coded at the > > population level. Presumably, when a population is created, a > > parameter to its __init__ would be the chromosome type, but I don't > > know how to take that in Python and use it to specify a certain class. > > > I'm not sure I'm following you here. So a "chromosome" is bit of > functionality, right? So basically it is a function. So my advice would > be to write these functions and store it to the "indivuals"-list like so: > > class Population(object): > def __init__(self, *individuals): > self.individuals = list(individuals) > > Then you can say: > p = Population(indiv1, indiv2, indiv3) > for individual in p.individual: > individual(whatever_your_problem) > > (Don't know if this is the way GA's are supposed to work) > > You can also create callable classes (that is, classes that implement > the __call__ method), and use instances of these as the individuals. For > example you can create a Permutation class that returns a permutation > (defined in it's __init__()) when it's __call__ method is called. (Am I > making sense?) > > This is just generic advice, maybe this helps and maybe it doesn't at > all. :) > > > > > I'm doing something similar with my crossover methods, by specifying > > them as functions in a module called Crossover, importing that, and > > defining > > > > crossover_function = getattr(Crossover, "%s_crossover" % xover) > > > > Where xover is a parameter defining the type of crossover to be used. > > I'm hoping there's some similar trick to accomplish what I want to do > > with chromosomes - or maybe I'm going about this completely the wrong > > way, trying to get Python to do something it's not made for. Any help/ > > feedback would be wonderful. > > > This isn't too bad, but for such things dictionaries are your Go-To > datatype. Just have a dictionary of xover-functions handy and call the > thusly: > > crossover_function = Crossover.function[xover] > > > > Thanks, > > Max Martin > If that helps :) > > regards > /W > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list