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Add Shell Sort Algorithm

Open Gauri2882 opened this issue 2 months ago • 0 comments

Describe your change:

  • [x] Add an algorithm
  • [ ] Fix a bug or typo in an existing algorithm
  • [ ] Add or change doctests?
  • [ ] Documentation change

Checklist:

  • [x] I have read CONTRIBUTING.md.
  • [x] This pull request is all my own work -- I have not plagiarized.
  • [x] I know that pull requests will not be merged if they fail the automated tests.
  • [x] This PR only changes one algorithm file. To ease review, I opened a separate PR for this algorithm only.
  • [x] All new Python files are placed inside an existing directory (sorts/).
  • [x] All filenames are in all lowercase characters with no spaces or dashes (shell_sort.py).
  • [x] All functions and variable names follow Python naming conventions.
  • [x] All function parameters and return values are annotated with Python type hints.
  • [x] All functions have doctests that pass the automated testing.
  • [x] This algorithm includes a reference link to Wikipedia (Shell Sort explanation).
  • [ ] Fixes #ISSUE-NUMBER (optional — only check if you linked an issue)

Gauri2882 avatar Nov 16 '25 12:11 Gauri2882