Genetic algorithm creating single character strings?

Question

We had this issue, and realized we were using "list.extend" rather than "list.append" for adding our new generation. list.extend will treat the string like a list, and add each index (char) to the list. This is not what we want. Append will add the string, as an object, to the end of the list, which is what we want.

Answer 1

Nicely put Stowe. Moral of the story, use append instead of extend so that Stonedahl won't have to help you debug for 20 minutes...