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Weasel program redux
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import string, random | |
CHARS = string.uppercase + ' ' | |
PROGENY = 100 | |
RATE = 0.05 | |
TARGET = 'METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL' | |
genotype = lambda s : [random.choice(s) for x in xrange(len(TARGET))] | |
phenotype = '' | |
def fitness(phenotype): | |
return sum([x == y for x,y in zip(phenotype, TARGET)]) | |
def mutate(phenotype): | |
return [(random.choice(CHARS) if random.random() < RATE else c) for c in phenotype] | |
phenotypes = [''.join(genotype(CHARS)) for x in xrange(PROGENY)] | |
population = [''.join(mutate(l)) for l in phenotypes] | |
i = 0 | |
while phenotype != TARGET: | |
points = [] | |
for phenotype in population: | |
score = fitness(phenotype) | |
points.append(score) | |
winner = max(points) | |
phenotype = population[points.index(winner)] | |
population = [''.join(mutate(phenotype)) for x in xrange(PROGENY)] | |
print('{0}: {1} -- score: {2}'.format(i, phenotype, winner)) | |
i += 1 |
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