From f976db3605d141efc4a44ee71ab11049dc5491da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Divanshu <114694978+dvanhu@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 17:17:32 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update type hints for linear search functions

---
 searches/linear_search.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/searches/linear_search.py b/searches/linear_search.py
index 8adb4a7015f0..9b0a9810951e 100644
--- a/searches/linear_search.py
+++ b/searches/linear_search.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 """
 
 
-def linear_search(sequence: list, target: int) -> int:
+def linear_search(sequence: list[int], target: int) -> int:
     """A pure Python implementation of a linear search algorithm
 
     :param sequence: a collection with comparable items (sorting is not required for
@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ 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[int], low: int, high: int, target: int
+) -> int:
     """
     A pure Python implementation of a recursive linear search algorithm
 

From bf9f4cea7abb870486c0be1571897b4a553ea674 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "pre-commit-ci[bot]"
 <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 11:53:51 +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, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/searches/linear_search.py b/searches/linear_search.py
index 9b0a9810951e..98de2534ee96 100644
--- a/searches/linear_search.py
+++ b/searches/linear_search.py
@@ -33,9 +33,7 @@ def linear_search(sequence: list[int], target: int) -> int:
     return -1
 
 
-def rec_linear_search(
-    sequence: list[int], low: int, high: int, target: int
-) -> int:
+def rec_linear_search(sequence: list[int], low: int, high: int, target: int) -> int:
     """
     A pure Python implementation of a recursive linear search algorithm