From 33237f7d84ecd4979d220af273190a37533d4431 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ananthakrishnan Nair RS <61831021+akrish4@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 19:41:12 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] added python topic

---
 SEARCHING/python/linea_search.py | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 SEARCHING/python/linea_search.py

diff --git a/SEARCHING/python/linea_search.py b/SEARCHING/python/linea_search.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ded48038
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SEARCHING/python/linea_search.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+def linear_search(a, x):
+    for i in range(len(a)):
+        if a[i] == x:
+            return i
+    return -1
+    
+a = [1,4,7,9,14,17,39,56]    
+x = 8
+y = 39
+
+print(linear_search(a,x))
+print(linear_search(a,y))