Sudoku
Eric Parry
joan4eric at gmail.com
Sun Mar 31 18:03:47 EDT 2013
On Sunday, March 31, 2013 9:45:36 AM UTC+10:30, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 03/30/2013 06:06 PM, Eric Parry wrote:
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> > On Saturday, March 30, 2013 8:41:08 AM UTC+10:30, Dave Angel wrote:
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> >> On 03/29/2013 05:47 PM, Eric Parry wrote:
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> >>> <SNIP>
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> >> Sometimes a bug in such a function will cause it to run indefinitely,
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> >> and/or to overflow the stack. I don't see such a bug in this function.
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> >> --
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> >> DaveA
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> > The exit() did not work.
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> Would you like to elaborate? exit() is supposed to take an int
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> parameter, but the author apparently didn't notice that. So perhaps you
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> got an exception of some sort. Change it to exit() or exit(0) and it
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> might solve the problem, depending on what the problem was.
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> > I replaced it with return = 0, and that does work.
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> No it doesn't. return = 0 is a syntax error in both Python 2.x and 3.x
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> But if you changed it to a valid return statement, then that's why it
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> doesn't stop on the first solution.
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> DaveA
I think in the original it was exit(a). That did not work either.
I'll try the others.
Eric.
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