Usage Tutorial

This tutorial demonstrates how to use each function in the sudoku_validation package with runnable examples.

from sudoku_validation.array_validation import array_validation
from sudoku_validation.row_validation import row_validation
from sudoku_validation.column_validation import column_validation
from sudoku_validation.square_validation import square_validation
from sudoku_validation.combined_validation import combined_validation

# Example boards
complete = [
    [5,3,4,6,7,8,9,1,2],
    [6,7,2,1,9,5,3,4,8],
    [1,9,8,3,4,2,5,6,7],
    [8,5,9,7,6,1,4,2,3],
    [4,2,6,8,5,3,7,9,1],
    [7,1,3,9,2,4,8,5,6],
    [9,6,1,5,3,7,2,8,4],
    [2,8,7,4,1,9,6,3,5],
    [3,4,5,2,8,6,1,7,9]
]

incomplete = [
    [5,3,0,0,7,0,0,0,0],
    [6,0,0,1,9,5,0,0,0],
    [0,9,8,0,0,0,0,6,0],
    [8,0,0,0,6,0,0,0,3],
    [4,0,0,8,0,3,0,0,1],
    [7,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,6],
    [0,6,0,0,0,0,2,8,0],
    [0,0,0,4,1,9,0,0,5],
    [0,0,0,0,8,0,0,7,9]
]

print('array_validation (valid unit):', array_validation([5,3,4,6,7,8,9,1,2]))
print('array_validation (invalid unit):', array_validation([5,3,4,6,7,8,9,1,5]))

print('\nrow_validation (complete board):', row_validation(complete))
print('\ncolumn_validation (complete board):', column_validation(complete))
print('\nsquare_validation (complete board):', square_validation(complete))
print('\ncombined_validation (complete board):', combined_validation(complete))
print('combined_validation (incomplete but valid):', combined_validation(incomplete))

array_validation (valid unit): True
array_validation (invalid unit): False

row_validation (complete board): True

column_validation (complete board): True

square_validation (complete board): True

combined_validation (complete board): True
combined_validation (incomplete but valid): True