PEAL

Python Package for Evolutionary Algorithms

Some Notes

PEAL is a python package enabling the user to easily find solutions to optimization problems by creating implementations of basic evolutionary algorithms.

The code is highly object-oriented. Other packages in this field (such as DEAP) seem to implement the algorithms in a non-pythonic way and while this coding style supplies much more flexibility, the user also has to write more code for each new application.

PEAL aims to minimize to code a user has to write in order to implement basic algorithms. The hard part here is figuring out how this can be achieved while also trying to maximize the number of different methods and algorithms the user can access. A major part of PEAL will also be an advanced type hinting structure. This automatically increases readability and allows easier code management.

Installation

PEAL can be installed on your local machine by using the file setup.py.

>>> python setup.py install

However, it is recommended to use virtual environments together with poetry and utilize the file pyproject.toml.

Documentation

The documentation of PEAL can be created by calling make html in the docs folder. This will need a few dependencies to work. Please install the following packages using pip or conda before executing the make command.

• sphinx
• sphinx_rtd_theme

You can also use poetry for this by executing:

>>> poetry install -E docs

This should create a local directory docs/build. Open the file docs/build/index.html in a browser to access the documentation.

Examples

Some example code on how to use PEAL can be found in the examples folder.