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Describe your change:

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removed whitespace in blank lines

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added blank after >>>

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There's no need of examples in the main code, all examples should be in the doctests

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cclauss commented Jul 3, 2020

There's no need of examples in the main code, all examples should be in the doctests

For me, I see no reason why we should limit the main code from having examples.

"""Implementation of a double-linear-search,
which iterates through the array from both sides: start and end.

Change ARRAY_LENGTH to a number you want to generate an example array,
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Lines 4 - 10 should be moved into __main__ because they are not used by your function.

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Nice work!!

@cclauss cclauss merged commit 64bef60 into TheAlgorithms:master Jul 4, 2020
stokhos pushed a commit to stokhos/Python that referenced this pull request Jan 3, 2021
* linear search iterating from both array sides

* Update double_linear_search.py

* Update double_linear_search.py

* added doctests

* updated doctests

* Update double_linear_search.py

* Update double_linear_search.py

* added blank after >>>

* made all the requested changes

* Update double_linear_search.py

* Update double_linear_search.py

Co-authored-by: Christian Clauss <cclauss@me.com>
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