Binary Tree Paths

Intuition

Do a DFS and save the path in a stack. Once we visit a leaf, we could copy the current stack as a valid path.

Solution


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

class Solution:
    def binaryTreePaths(self, root: TreeNode) -> List[str]:
        self.stack = []
        self.result = []
        self._helper(root)
        return ['->'.join(r) for r in self.result]

    def _helper(self, node):
        if node is None:
            return

        self.stack.append(str(node.val))
        if node.left == node.right == None:
            self.result.append(self.stack[:])
        self._helper(node.left)
        self._helper(node.right)
        self.stack.pop()