PU Binary Tree Zigzag Level Order Traversal

Jan 01, 1970

Given a binary tree, return the zigzag level order traversal of its nodes' values. (ie, from left to right, then right to left for the next level and alternate between).

For example:

Given binary tree [3,9,20,null,null,15,7],

    3
   / 
  9  20
    /  
   15   7

return its zigzag level order traversal as:

[
  [3],
  [20,9],
  [15,7]
]

Python Solution

# Definition for a binary tree node.
# class TreeNode(object):
#     def __init__(self, x):
#         self.val = x
#         self.left = None
#         self.right = None

class Solution(object):
    def zigzagLevelOrder(self, root):
        """
        :type root: TreeNode
        :rtype: List[List[int]]
        """
        if not root: return []
        res = []
        l = [root]
        odd = 0
        while l:
            r = []
            vals = []
            for node in l:
                vals.append(node.val)
                if node.left: r.append(node.left)
                if node.right: r.append(node.right)
            if odd: vals.reverse()
            res.append(vals)
            odd ^= 1
            l = r
        return res

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LeetCode: 103. Binary Tree Zigzag Level Order Traversal