CSP-Sudoku-Solver

Purpose

Tool that can be used to solve a given sudoku board using CSP Consistency and Backtracking algorithms.

Usage

1. Download and install Python
2. Clone the repository
3. Run pip -r requirements.txt to install all required libraries
4. Run python ./main.py -in FILENAME [-OPTIONS]

Options

-in INPUTFILE, --inputFile INPUTFILE

• The filename that holds the given sudoku. Must be a 9x9 board of numbers with either '0' or ' ' to represent the blank spaces

Examples of valid boards:

100007090     9  5 8  7
030020008      8 3 29 5
009600500      54    8 
005300900      7 68  32
010080002     1    4  8
600004000     5  219 6 
300000010        9 6   
040000007     726  1   
007000300 

-o OUTPUTFILE, --outputFile OUTPUTFILE

• Supplies the filename to output text to, default is output.txt.

-d, --debug

• Tells the program to run in debug mode

-p, --plot

• Tells the program to run in plot mode which will provide a graph during preprocessing:

License

MIT © License can be found here.