Creating an environment

We will be using a package called OpenAI Gym to build reinforcement learning agents. You can learn more about it here: https://gym.openai.com . We can install it using pip by running the following command on the Terminal:

$ pip3 install gym

You can find various tips and tricks related to its installation here: https://github.com/openai/gym#installation . Now that you have installed it, let's go ahead and write some code.

Create a new python file and import the following package:

import argparse 
 
import gym 

Define a function to parse the input arguments. We will be able to specify the type of environment we want to run:

def build_arg_parser(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Run an environment') parser.add_argument('--input-env', ...

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