SimpleAI: Artificial Intelligence with Python (simpleai.readthedocs.org)

This is awesome. I really want to play with some AI lib and all of the ones I tried have way too many problems compiling on Windows. pip install them fails too. I don't want to spend time compiling libraries.

This one just worked. This is the Python way.

Very interesting, but the code example used in the documentation is pretty poor:

    from simpleai.search import SearchProblem, astar

    GOAL = 'HELLO WORLD'

    class HelloProblem(SearchProblem):
        def actions(self, state):
            if len(state) < len(GOAL):
                return list(' ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')
            else:
                return []

        def result(self, state, action):
            return state + action

        def is_goal(self, state):
            return state == GOAL

        def heuristic(self, state):
            # how far are we from the goal?
            wrong = sum([1 if state[i] != GOAL[i] else 0
                        for i in range(len(state))])
            missing = len(GOAL) - len(state)
            return wrong + missing

Among other things, why create a class and hardcode the GOAL as a constant?

See also: https://code.google.com/p/aima-java/