Source code for surrogate.selection.selBest

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# Author: Quan Pan <quanpan302@hotmail.com>
# License: Apache License, Version 2.0
# Create: 2016-12-02

from operator import attrgetter

def selBest(individuals, k=1):
    """Select the *k* best individuals among the input *individuals*. The
    list returned contains references to the input *individuals*.

    :param individuals: A list of individuals to select from.
    :param k: The number of individuals to select.
    :returns: A list containing the k best individuals.
    """
    return sorted(individuals, key=attrgetter("fitness"), reverse=True)[:k]