From f994c53417a575f4b57475888df76a0ce176eca4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MatteoRaso <matteo_luigi_raso@protonmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 23:44:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed Documentation For Configs

In the previous documentation, it said that `OpenEvolve` took in the path
for the config file as input, which is false. I changed the documentation
to show the proper way of inputting the config using the Config() class.
---
 configs/README.md | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/configs/README.md b/configs/README.md
index 6ce24383c1..836c4b3ad7 100644
--- a/configs/README.md
+++ b/configs/README.md
@@ -65,9 +65,13 @@ Then use with OpenEvolve:
 
 ```python
 from openevolve import OpenEvolve
+from openevolve.config import Config
+
+config = Config()
+config.from_yaml("my_config.yaml")
 evolve = OpenEvolve(
     initial_program_path="program.py",
     evaluation_file="evaluator.py", 
-    config_path="my_config.yaml"
+    config=config
 )
 ```