From 5db83095b3f3b4d2d9bef80a94a12acba13f5345 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chetan Kaushik <dynamitechetan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 22:34:54 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Linear Search

---
 LinearSearch.py | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 LinearSearch.py

diff --git a/LinearSearch.py b/LinearSearch.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..12117896c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LinearSearch.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+def search_linear(x,y):
+  n = len( x )
+  for i in range(n):
+	  if theValue[i] == y:
+		  return True
+  return false
+
+def sequentialSearch(alist, item):
+		pos = 0
+		found = False
+	
+		while pos < len(alist) and not found:
+				
+			if alist[pos] == item:
+				found = True
+				print("Found")
+			else:
+				pos = pos+1
+		if found == False:
+				print("Not found")
+		return found
+	
+print("Enter numbers seprated by space")
+s = input()
+numbers = list(map(int, s.split()))
+trgt =int( input('enter a single number to be found in the list '))
+sequentialSearch(numbers, trgt)
+