@codelion What do you think?

Can you update from main, maybe we should add an example that shows how to use it as a library with this evaluation object instead of file. Otherwise looks good.

Added a variant of the online judge example.

Added a variant of the online judge example.

This example still seems to use initial_program.py and evaluator.py files. I thought you were proposing a way to use the openevolve as a library without the need to supply the files? I am trying to understand what benefit does having an evaluation object give in this example?

It still has evaluator.py as a separate file but only for modularity - you can put the Evaluator class in the main.py file.

But the point is not merely combining files - in this example, it makes it possible for the user to pick the problem to solve at runtime, e.g., from the command line.

To implement such functionality without evaluation objects, the program will have to modify the evaluator.py file at runtime, which is difficult to manage.

I guess a slightly more general way of explaining is that evaluation objects can have parameters stored in them, be it the problem to solve, timeout value, or something else.

Meanwhile, if one wants to communicate a parameter to a evaluator file, one has to either modify its source - and it can easily get messy when there are multiple parameters; or have the evaluator module read from yet another config file, which adds unnecessary complexity.