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docs: Add type hints and improve documentation for pancake_sort

Open 2400031832 opened this issue 1 month ago • 0 comments

Describe your change:

This PR improves the documentation for the pancake_sort.py file to address issue #13948 about documentation inconsistencies.

Changes made:

  • Added comprehensive module-level docstring explaining the Pancake Sort algorithm
  • Added type hints to the function signature using list[Any]
  • Added detailed docstring with Args, Returns, Time Complexity, and Space Complexity sections
  • Added inline comments explaining each step of the algorithm
  • Added additional doctest examples for better testing coverage
  • Added time complexity (O(n^2)) and space complexity (O(1)) documentation
  • [ ] Add an algorithm?
  • [ ] Fix a bug or typo in an existing algorithm?
  • [ ] Add or change doctests?
  • [x] 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, please open separate PRs for separate algorithms.

2400031832 avatar Nov 25 '25 06:11 2400031832