I am currently trying to write a simple multi-threading program using Python. However I have run on to a bug I think I am missing. I am trying to simply write a program that uses a brute force approach the problem below:
As can be seen from the image there is a chess board where the knight travels all respective squares.
My approach is simply try each possible way where each possible way is a new thread. If in the end of the thread there is no possible moves count how many squares has been visited if it is equal to 63 write solution on a simple text file...
The code is as below:
from thread import start_new_thread
import sys
i=1
coor_x = raw_input("Please enter x[0-7]: ")
coor_y = raw_input("Please enter y[0-7]: ")
coordinate = int(coor_x), int(coor_y)
def checker(coordinates, previous_moves):
possible_moves = [(coordinates[0]+1, coordinates[1]+2), (coordinates[0]+1, coordinates[1]-2),
(coordinates[0]-1, coordinates[1]+2), (coordinates[0]-1, coordinates[1]-2),
(coordinates[0]+2, coordinates[1]+1), (coordinates[0]+2, coordinates[1]-1),
(coordinates[0]-2, coordinates[1]+1), (coordinates[0]-2, coordinates[1]-1)]
to_be_removed = []
for index in possible_moves:
(index_x, index_y) = index
if index_x < 0 or index_x > 7 or index_y < 0 or index_y > 7:
to_be_removed.append(index)
for index in previous_moves:
if index in possible_moves:
to_be_removed.append(index)
if not to_be_removed:
for index in to_be_removed:
possible_moves.remove(index)
if len(possible_moves) == 0:
if not end_checker(previous_moves):
print "This solution is not correct"
else:
return possible_moves
def end_checker(previous_moves):
if len(previous_moves) == 63:
writer = open("knightstour.txt", "w")
writer.write(previous_moves)
writer.close()
return True
else:
return False
def runner(previous_moves, coordinates, i):
if not end_checker(previous_moves):
process_que = checker(coordinates, previous_moves)
for processing in process_que:
previous_moves.append(processing)
i = i+1
print "Thread number:"+str(i)
start_new_thread(runner, (previous_moves, processing, i))
else:
sys.exit()
previous_move = []
previous_move.append(coordinate)
runner(previous_move, coordinate, i)
c = raw_input("Type something to exit !")
I am open to all suggestions... My sample output is as below:
Please enter x[0-7]: 4
Please enter y[0-7]: 0
Thread number:2
Thread number:3
Thread number:4
Thread number:5Thread number:4
Thread number:5
Thread number:6Thread number:3Thread number:6Thread number:5Thread number:6
Thread number:7
Thread number:6Thread number:8
Thread number:7
Thread number:8Thread number:7
Thread number:8
Thread number:4
Thread number:5
Thread number:6Thread number:9Thread number:7Thread number:9
Thread number:10
Thread number:11
Thread number:7
Thread number:8
Thread number:9
Thread number:10
Thread number:11
Thread number:12
Thread number:5Thread number:5
Thread number:6
Thread number:7
Thread number:8
Thread number:9
Thread number:6
Thread number:7
Thread number:8
Thread number:9
If seems for some reason the number of threads are stuck at 12... Any help would be most welcomed...
Thank you
