From b41e5035751c092fc5c9bcda2314aad8c6d8bade Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: divya116 <56511764+divya116@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:24:49 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] linear-search.py

Added linear search code in python
---
 Algorithms/Search/linear-search.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Algorithms/Search/linear-search.py

diff --git a/Algorithms/Search/linear-search.py b/Algorithms/Search/linear-search.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..66dde53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Algorithms/Search/linear-search.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#Code to return first index of occurrence of element x if it is present in array arr, -1 if not present
+def search(arr, x): 
+
+	for i in range(len(arr)): 
+
+		if arr[i] == x: 
+			return i 
+
+	return -1