[LeeCode] 236. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree (Python)

236. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree

Medium

Given a binary tree, find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes in the tree.

According to the definition of LCA on Wikipedia: “The lowest common ancestor is defined between two nodes p and q as the lowest node in T that has both p and q as descendants (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself).”

Given the following binary tree:  root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4]

 

Example 1:

Input: root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 1
Output: 3
Explanation: The LCA of nodes 5 and 1 is 3.

Example 2:

Input: root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 4
Output: 5
Explanation: The LCA of nodes 5 and 4 is 5, since a node can be a descendant of itself according to the LCA definition.

 

Note:

• All of the nodes' values will be unique.
• p and q are different and both values will exist in the binary tree.

 

笔记：

import collections
class Solution:
    def lowestCommonAncestor(self, root: 'TreeNode', p: 'TreeNode', q: 'TreeNode') -> 'TreeNode':
        if p == root or q == root:
            return root
        if not root:
            return None
        left_node = self.lowestCommonAncestor(root.left, p, q)
        right_node = self.lowestCommonAncestor(root.right, p, q)
        if left_node and right_node:
            return root
        if left_node:
            return left_node
        return right_node