From 2e0c3a3f01f34bee3261b56a4405d56d1546072c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aditya Mitra <216041780+Aditya70-creator@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:22:30 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] style: add explicit type hints to linear_search.py

---
 searches/linear_search.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/searches/linear_search.py b/searches/linear_search.py
index 8adb4a7015f0..b3880ee84d6b 100644
--- a/searches/linear_search.py
+++ b/searches/linear_search.py
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
 For manual testing run:
 python3 linear_search.py
 """
+from typing import Any  
 
-
-def linear_search(sequence: list, target: int) -> int:
+def linear_search(sequence: list[Any], target: Any) -> int:
     """A pure Python implementation of a linear search algorithm
 
     :param sequence: a collection with comparable items (sorting is not required for
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def linear_search(sequence: list, target: int) -> int:
     return -1
 
 
-def rec_linear_search(sequence: list, low: int, high: int, target: int) -> int:
+def rec_linear_search(sequence: list[Any], low: int, high: int, target: Any) -> int:
     """
     A pure Python implementation of a recursive linear search algorithm
 

From d0e52da86909170609c822f7076ddca101eade95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "pre-commit-ci[bot]"
 <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:05:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks

for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci
---
 searches/linear_search.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/searches/linear_search.py b/searches/linear_search.py
index b3880ee84d6b..b8d7d0a58094 100644
--- a/searches/linear_search.py
+++ b/searches/linear_search.py
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
 For manual testing run:
 python3 linear_search.py
 """
-from typing import Any  
+
+from typing import Any
+
 
 def linear_search(sequence: list[Any], target: Any) -> int:
     """A pure Python implementation of a linear search algorithm