PyGAD 2.18.0

1. Raise an exception if the sum of fitness values is zero while either roulette wheel or stochastic universal parent selection is used. #129
2. Initialize the value of the `run_completed` property to `False`. #122
3. The values of these properties are no longer reset with each call to the `run()` method `self.best_solutions, self.best_solutions_fitness, self.solutions, self.solutions_fitness`: #123. Now, the user can have the flexibility of calling the `run()` method more than once while extending the data collected after each generation. Another advantage happens when the instance is loaded and the `run()` method is called, as the old fitness value are shown on the graph alongside with the new fitness values. Read more in this section: [Continue without Loosing Progress](https://pygad.readthedocs.io/en/latest/README_pygad_ReadTheDocs.html#continue-without-loosing-progress)
4. Thanks [Prof. Fernando Jiménez Barrionuevo](http://webs.um.es/fernan) (Dept. of Information and Communications Engineering, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain) for editing this [comment](https://github.com./ahmedfgad/GeneticAlgorithmPython/blob/5315bbec02777df96ce1ec665c94dece81c440f4/pygad.py#L73) in the code. 5315bbe
5. A bug fixed when `crossover_type=None`.
6. Support of elitism selection through a new parameter named `keep_elitism`. It defaults to 1 which means for each generation keep only the best solution in the next generation. If assigned 0, then it has no effect. Read more in this section: [Elitism Selection](https://pygad.readthedocs.io/en/latest/README_pygad_ReadTheDocs.html#elitism-selection). #74
7. A new instance attribute named `last_generation_elitism` added to hold the elitism in the last generation.
8. A new parameter called `random_seed` added to accept a seed for the random function generators. Credit to this issue #70 and [Prof. Fernando Jiménez Barrionuevo](http://webs.um.es/fernan). Read more in this section: [Random Seed](https://pygad.readthedocs.io/en/latest/README_pygad_ReadTheDocs.html#random-seed).
9. Editing the `pygad.TorchGA` module to make sure the tensor data is moved from GPU to CPU. Thanks to Rasmus Johansson for opening this pull request: ahmedfgad/TorchGA#2

Author: ahmedfgad

__init__.py

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 from .pygad import * # Relative import.
 
-__version__ = "2.17.0"
+__version__ = "2.18.0"