# my linear search (for unsorted sequence of integers, starting position 0):

from random import randint

def my_linear_search(unsorted, searchval):
    sorted_list = sorted(unsorted)
    for position, item in enumerate(sorted_list):
        if sorted_list[position] == searchval:
            print(item, "is at position", position)
        if item > searchval:
            return False

list_to_sort = [randint(0,100) for i in range(500)]
print(list_to_sort)
my_linear_search(list_to_sort, 50)