© claire harrison 2005
This help book describes the sudoku application, and includes some notes about playing sudoku.
The program may be used to generate, analyse and help you solve square sudoku grids of size 4x4, 9x9 or 16x16. The size of grid is fixed once the program has started. To work with grids of a different size you have to start the program again. You specify the size either by giving an input file containing a grid of the desired size, or by defining the sub-grid size (ie 2 for a 4x4 grid, 3 for a 9x9 grid (this is the default) and 4 for a 16x16 grid)
eg
python sudokuBigWin.py -z 2
for a 4x4 grid
There is also a smaller and faster program, which has all the same features except the candidate value lists.
python sudokuWin.py
If you have the gui application installed on your system you will also have a commnand line application which may be more suitable for some purposes. To find out more about the command line version:
python <path>sudoku.py -h
(where <path> is the path to your sudoku program followed by the path separator for your system)
The help system exists mostly as a skeleton at present. But I have tried to document the most important things. Also everything refered to in the outline is in the program (except the bits about solving programs manually of course). The phrase 'sorry, not written yet' refers to the documentation, not the code!