question: one time initialization

[adamcrussell]

Suppose I want to read some background knowledge from an external source. Is there a straightforward way to perform any sort of one time initialization in a Popper run to do things like read data from a file?

[andrewcropper]

Hi Adam,

You can use Popper as a libray:

from popper.util import Settings, print_prog_score
from popper.loop import learn_solution
settings = Settings(kbpath='input_dir')
prog, score, stats = learn_solution(settings)
if prog != None:
    print_prog_score(prog, score)

You can then dynamically create the BK files (perhaps as a temporary file).

Kind regards,

Andrew