diff --git a/mlfromscratch/unsupervised_learning/genetic_algorithm.py b/mlfromscratch/unsupervised_learning/genetic_algorithm.py
index 04eacab1..5fb1a704 100644
--- a/mlfromscratch/unsupervised_learning/genetic_algorithm.py
+++ b/mlfromscratch/unsupervised_learning/genetic_algorithm.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ def __init__(self, target_string, population_size, mutation_rate):
         self.target = target_string
         self.population_size = population_size
         self.mutation_rate = mutation_rate
-        self.letters = [" "] + list(string.letters)
+        self.letters = [" "] + list(string.ascii_letters)
 
     def _initialize(self):
         """ Initialize population with random strings """