Sudoku

[Eric Parry]

On Monday, April 1, 2013 8:33:47 AM UTC+10:30, Eric Parry wrote:
> On Sunday, March 31, 2013 9:45:36 AM UTC+10:30, Dave Angel 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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> > >> and/or to overflow the stack.  I don't see such a bug in this function.
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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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> > > 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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> I think in the original it was exit(a). That did not work either.
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> I'll try the others.
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> Eric.

I tried all those things. The program keeps running after the solution in every case. Never mind. It won't do that in VBA when I finish it.
Eric.