LeetCode Top Interview 150

103. Binary Tree Zigzag Level Order Traversal

Medium

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

Example 1:

Input: root = [3,9,20,null,null,15,7]

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

Example 2:

Input: root = [1]

Output: [[1]]

Example 3:

Input: root = []

Output: []

Constraints:

Solution

from typing import List, Optional
from collections import deque

class TreeNode:
    def __init__(self, val=0, left=None, right=None):
        self.val = val
        self.left = left
        self.right = right

class Solution:
    def zigzagLevelOrder(self, root: Optional[TreeNode]) -> List[List[int]]:
        result = []
        if root is None:
            return result
        q = deque()
        q.append(root)
        q.append(None)
        zig = True
        level = deque()
        while q:
            node = q.popleft()
            while q and node is not None:
                if zig:
                    level.append(node.val)
                else:
                    level.appendleft(node.val)
                if node.left is not None:
                    q.append(node.left)
                if node.right is not None:
                    q.append(node.right)
                node = q.popleft()
            result.append(list(level))
            zig = not zig
            level = deque()
            if q:
                q.append(None)
        return result