culebra.abc.Species class

class Species

Bases: Base

Base class for all the species in culebra.

Each solution returned by a Trainer must belong to a species which constraints its parameter values.

Class methods

classmethod Species.load(filename: str) → Base

Load a serialized object from a file.

Parameters:

filename (str) – The file name.

Returns:

The loaded object

Raises:

• TypeError – If filename is not a valid file name

• ValueError – If the filename extension is not SERIALIZED_FILE_EXTENSION

Methods

Species.dump(filename: str) → None

Serialize this object and save it to a file.

Parameters:

filename (str) – The file name.

Raises:

• TypeError – If filename is not a valid file name

• ValueError – If the filename extension is not SERIALIZED_FILE_EXTENSION

abstract Species.is_member(sol: Solution) → bool

Check if a solution meets the constraints imposed by the species.

This method must be overridden by subclasses to return a correct value.

Parameters:

sol (Solution) – The solution

Returns:

True if the solution belongs to the species, or False otherwise

Return type:

bool