Binary Trees in Python: Introduction and Traversal Algorithms

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In this video, we will go over the binary tree data structure. We then go over how to implement this data structure in Python. We then cover the three recursive depth-first search traversal algorithms (preorder, inorder, and postorder) and implement those recursively in Python.
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[@LucidProgramming]

Note that @26:30 I call the "inorder" traversal function inside of the "postorder" traversal function and neglected to change it to postorder. This was a copy-paste error. You can fix it by changing the "inorder" call in postorder to the appropriate postorder call. Sorry for the mistake, and thanks for watching!

[@Soccercrazyigboman]

How can you go from child back to parent if you don't have a next and previous pointer?

[@Soccercrazyigboman]

By next and previous I should say if each node doesnt have a pointer pointing to the one above it as well as to the one below it?

[@AshwaniKumar-dj6re]

@@Soccercrazyigboman he is using recursion

[@NicholasSilva1380]

That changes the expected output from 4-2-5-6-3-7-1- to 4-5-2-6-7-3-1-

[@violetkimani3118]

Hi, would be more efficient to add a function from within the class for adding values to the tree? does it help/ would it be more efficient especially during interviews

[@bijayamanandhar3890]

Thank you for the great tutorial! I am a new developer still looking for a job after graduation from a boot camp. I never had a chance to learn the data-structure, dfs, bfs etc before. Now, it's getting clear to me step by step after watching the videos you posted.

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Great Video! Thank you for visualising and really emphasizing on the most basic aspects as this is something which I personally as a Beginner seem to struggle with! Keep up the good work it is really appreciated!

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[@safderaree]

Hands down the best explanation, I've struggled for so long trying to get the intuition through my textbook. Thanks!

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[@turjo119]

I was stuck for hours trying to understand this, you made it so simple! Thank you so much

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@@LucidProgramming Done and done my good man!

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@@turjo119 Cheers, thank you!

[@bhaskarbhuyan30]

Very informative and easy-to-understand tutorial. Thank you for this incredible contribution to the enthusiasts and learners!

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[@edgarlip2]

wow - it is awesome !!! i can tell one analogy that helped me a lot : when do i collect the value : • pre-order - when value collected ?: once I am hovering on a node I am collecting it's value. • in-order - when value collected ?: if the node has no left node or the left node is already visited then add this value. • post-order - when value collected ?: once the node has no left nor right or left and right has been already visited then I will collect the value. HTH

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Thanks, and yes that's a great way to remember them!

[@reccartoon]

i really love the way you are explaining all these concepts in very effective manner thanks for this :)

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This is the most simplified video tutorial with good examples, the best I have seen so far. I got everything after watching this video only once. A lot of online tutorials are just too ambiguous and really confusing. Lucid you're the best for sure. Thanks a lot

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[@enkaibi2756]

Too excited to sleep now! I finally understand it! Best video on Traversal Algorithms explanation! Consider watching all your python video!

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[@enkaibi2756]

@@LucidProgramming Just a tiny recommendation, on 17:06, it would be better to use self.root instead of tree .root. Keep going! !!

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@@enkaibi2756 Point well taken. Thanks for the comment! :)

[@theguildedcage]

Awesome tutorial! Thanks.

[@LucidProgramming]

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Thanks for such a cool implementation explanation.

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Great explanations! Thank you very much!!

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[@DavidKaplanProgramming]

Really good tutorial man! Thanks

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[@ramiz3570]

Amazing explanation, thanks!

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Thank you! :)

[@Rich65501]

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Great video. Thank you!

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Thank you! Explained it very well.

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Best Explanation recursion is bit confusing but following each step through example made it easy... Thanks

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[@zarioiubogdan1164]

Hi there! Thank you so much for this! I just discovered your videos and they are so helpful! I was struggling a lot to understand how I could implement and traverse a binary tree. There are countless videos about this but yours really made me understand and gave me hope that with time and practice I could learn these concepts. I saw you have videos on many data structures and I plan to go through all of them and try to understand. Could you please also cover graph implementation and traversal in Python? Thank you again for your help! Wish you the best!

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[@ilanaizelman3993]

Can't be explained better. Thank you!

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@@LucidProgramming Done! :) Are you during Mock Interviews? Or know someone who does?

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@@LucidProgramming A very welcome sir. Please keep providing. The growth doesn’t justify ur quality. Keep it up sir.

[@MomoDiff48]

Just a small question, is it necessary to make whole class BinaryTree just for the root node? or it has something to do with python versions?

[@hussainaqeel7371]

Great Stuff! Made it very easy to understand! Thanks!

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@@LucidProgramming sure!

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@@hussainaqeel7371 Cheers, thank you!

[@bronik7]

(17:57) Why in preorder_print (line 4) you passing tree.root? why not self.root? to me it's not clear how Class knows about it's instance? Can you please explain? Thank you

[@nero9985]

Thank god I looked at the comments regarding the issue with the post order function, I spent a good 10 mins looking to see if I had the wrong implementation

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Glad you caught that, and sorry for the trouble!

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[@ishannoying]

loved it!

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[@vnpikachu4627]

Great work very easy to understand i really appreciate what you are doing to help us

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Hey Huru. Thank you very much for that comment. It's really great to hear that these videos have been helpful to you. I really get a lot of enjoyment from doing so as well, so the benefit is mutual! Cheers and thanks again for watching.

[@vnpikachu4627]

Just 30 minutes i go from nothing to understand a lot more about tree could you please make a tutorial about graph and some algorithm about tree ?

[@LucidProgramming]

Really happy to hear that. Yes, graphs are most certainly coming up soon! Thanks for the suggestion and for the comment!

[@carsonisgayandugly]

Hi, thank you so much for the video. I am a little confused still about one thing. When in the preorder traversal, when it comes to a leaf that dosn't have a left or right node, in the code how does it go backwards to the previous node or back to the root?

[@LucidProgramming]

I would encourage you to check out my playlist on recursion, as it seems you have a gap in understanding how recursive calls are treated.

[@valentynsson5969]

Legend perfect explanation thank´s I like it.

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[@toderickson6106]

good clarification skills, gave it a like

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[@zewdiherring9528]

Thanks! Helpful :D

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[@AustrianPainter22]

very good video for those who want to pick the grasp of binary tree quickly

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[@cdemr]

I am on Pycharm and I am a beginner. I do not understand what you're doing at 18:15. I can force-erase the consol but I can't write inside it.

[@olivierbegassat851]

Very valuable explanation! Thanks : )

[@LucidProgramming]

Glad to hear it, and thanks for watching! :)

[@olivierbegassat851]

​@@LucidProgramming The preorder_print function is the sort of thing I would have had a hard time coming up with myself. My naïve attempt would have been to have some list or dictionary of nodes whose left child you've already visited ... instead you simply wrote (amongst other things I'm skipping) traversal = self.preorder_print(start.left, traversal) traversal = self.preorder_print(start.right, traversal) This is really interesting, it's orders of magnitude more elegant and succinct. I wouldn't have come up with it. I would have written some longwinded solution using an extra list or dictionary. Do you know a book or online resource that contains Python implementations of many standard data structures ?

[@LucidProgramming]

@@olivierbegassat851 Thanks for the comment. Honestly, you can probably just Google for Python data structures and find something reasonably good.

[@fredirecko]

what is the time complexity of your preorder recursive traversal function?

[@DanielGarcia-uq8yz]

I'm only 3 min in but love the explanations. Thanks!

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Great to hear, and thank you for the kind words!

[@sarvarjuraev1376]

Thank you very much

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Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

[@kionlingg]

For the output on 19:38 I received an output "Traversal type preorder is not supported." Is that the correct output? Am I missing something?

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You should check your code against mine on GitHub.

[@user-vj3fs4cq9n]

amazing video

[@emadharazi5044]

Amazing video. Thank you very much. I just have one question. Is it possible to get a string of the tree using the inorder function but with only using one argument instead of two?

[@LucidProgramming]

Sure, you should be able to do that.

[@hakankanplay]

can you explain @19:33 when you call return tranversal, why it returns you the previous node of the current node that has empty left and right childs?

[@LucidProgramming]

Hi Hakan. Sure, the reason for this is because as we hit the base case of the function, we start working back through the stack frame from all the previous recursive calls to the function. I would recommend you print out the output as these calls are being made to see when and where they happen. I think seeing that can be helpful. Hope that makes sense, and thanks for watching!

[@gunabalang7034]

crystal clear

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[@rangasridharg2902]

what does tree.root.left represent?

[@alessiopellegrini523]

Shouldn't it be self.preorder_print(self.root, " ") in the helper function of the BinaryTree? There is no tree variable in the class and the only way the code is still running correctly is because "tree" happens to be defined outside of class, no?

[@kl-je3up]

explains it way better than my ds&a textbook lol

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[@Mankind5490]

This is fantastic, thank you

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[@Mankind5490]

@@LucidProgramming Already done!

[@vitaliano01]

Thank you.

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[@karinah6762]

Hi, why when you define the node class or binary class it inherits from object class?

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This is the way in which you define a class in Python.

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Hi..Thank you so much for uploading video with nice explanation..

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[@pythondev2631]

It is the first time that I come across Instantiate an object of another class without passing it as an argument (Node in BianryTree). Is this a common practise?

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Thank you sir!

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@@LucidProgramming I watched many videos on this subject, yours is spot on! You're a great teacher, thanks again!

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[@raheemwilliams7998]

how are you able to access attributes from another class without creating an object for it or even using inheritance? plz explain

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I think you might need to look into object oriented design on your own. I'm not going to give you a lecture on OOP principles in a KZbin comment.

[@samkruse6242]

This is gold

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[@ahmedsarker3555]

how can I understand programming please help i am on the verge of failing i still do not understand why do you use def_init_self

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[@shivanshtiwari4900]

Sir from where you draw trees in PPT. Can you suggest any app

[@LucidProgramming]

Shapes? If you can draw a circle and draw line, you can draw a tree.

[@ayushisingh6638]

I didn't get that in Inorder traversal like how from node A it's Going back to Node B?

[@LucidProgramming]

You might want to check out my playlist on recursion if this part is confusing to you.

[@rhythmsaparia8788]

I have a doubt, after a while adding nodes by writing tree.root.left.right.left bla bla becomes a cumbersome process, if you could suggest a better and easier way to add nodes than it would be a great help, thanks.

[@software-sage]

There must always be a way!

[@minaliaggarwal]

Hi- I think the code for post-order traversal might be incorrect. Is it supposed to output: [4, 5, 2, 6, 7, 3, 1]? Saw a similar tree in this article with this as the output: www.geeksforgeeks.org/iterative-postorder-traversal-using-stack/

[@LucidProgramming]

Hi Minali. You are absolutely correct. I checked to make sure the other traversals are correct, and they appear to be. As you say though, there seems to be something incorrect about the post-order traversal. I will be updating the code and also adding a note to the video to ensure others are aware of this. Thank you very much for pointing out my error, I sincerely appreciate this as it improves the quality of the content on this channel. Cheers, and thank you again.

[@minaliaggarwal]

No problem! Thanks for fixing it!

[@LucidProgramming]

Ah actually, I believe my issue here was I was calling the "inorder" function inside of the "postorder" function. Another helpful commenter pointed this out and I have since fixed the code. D'oh! :) Thanks again for letting me know, and thanks for your help!

[@khavishbhundoo3792]

Could you include the link for the presentation as well.It serves as a quick recap.Thanks for the great explanation.

[@LucidProgramming]

At the moment, those slides are a bit all over the place. However, it would certainly not be an issue to clean them up and post a link in the description of this video. Might take me a while to get around to it, but I'll add it to the list. Thanks for the suggestion and thanks for watching! :)

[@yashpandey350]

Sir in each order_print functions how node gets back to head position when its left child or right child becomes None.

[@LucidProgramming]

Through the recursive call of the function (if I understand the question correctly).

[@ajrvasu]

@@LucidProgramming Thanks for the great set of videos. My go to playlists. On this one - a bit confused as to how the recursion is getting back to the right child. In the example, after reaching 4, the left child is none. So the recursive function should not enter the loop at all, so how is reading the right child (5)? I get the code intuitively, but am stuck when trying to create the stack line by line to understand the recursion well.

[@LucidProgramming]

@@ajrvasu I think what might be insightful is to print out the elements as you make the recursive calls. That might make it a bit clearer as to what is happening. Hope that helps!

[@ajrvasu]

@@LucidProgramming Thanks for the suggestion.

[@LucidProgramming]

@@ajrvasu No problem, cheers!

[@gargoth]

great video! i would suggest matching the colors of the slides to the colors of the editor, because the sudden switch from dark to light doesn't sit well while watching. thanks!

[@LucidProgramming]

Thanks for the feedback, that's very helpful to know! Thanks again for watching as well!

[@gargoth]

no problem dude, i really appreciate your videos!

[@LucidProgramming]

@@gargoth Cheers, thank you!

[@FahmiEshaq]

Perfect

[@robn8656]

Just incase there's someone like me out there: I struggled forever to understand how this code and recursive data structures generally worked until I finally understood recursion. Al Sweigart has a great video on recursion but essentially recursive functions use a stack method to determine how the functions are called. the subsequent functions can't be called until the previous one has been removed from the stack. each number being appended to the string is that function being removed from the stack. So, counterintuitively, the string begins with one because it's the LAST METHOD to be cleared from the stack. All, the other methods cycle through the tree first, appending their value to the string. It sounds backwards, I know. I don't even know if I explained it well but you have to understand recursion to understand BST. Watch Sweigart's video.

[@LucidProgramming]

Cool, thanks for sharing and thanks for watching!

[@MrAgj200]

you say to look at your series of linked lists videos, but then dont link them. and if you do find the linked lists playlist, the first video in the series says its a continuation, so which is the first video, but who know what that is????

[@someshsangwan3768]

Thnq sir I am facing a TypeError: Binary tree takes no argument . Tell me about this

[@LucidProgramming]

You might want to check your code against my GitHub code.

[@yoloprk9761]

Why you passing object with every class?is it mandatory in python3.x

[@LucidProgramming]

No, it's not mandatory, but it makes it explicit if you have multiple classes in the future and want to use inheritance between them. You can take it out, and it won't make any difference. I just find the explicit nature to be a bit more clear, but you can decide in your own code whether that is the case or not.

[@procode6881]

how does the start go back to value 2 from 4 ?, the moment it realizes there is no left and right value for 4 How does that happen plz help?

[@LucidProgramming]

If that is confusing, I have a series on recursion that you might want to check out! Cheers!

[@procode6881]

@@LucidProgramming thanks

[@piratevv]

Hi Vincent, excellent as usual. is it possible to traverse iteratively as well? you got some code for us to see?

[@LucidProgramming]

Of course, anything you can do recursively you can generally do iteratively. I don't have code for it, but I encourage you to try.

[@hackytech7494]

Thank you so much for your explanation it was wonderful. I am having one doubt we haven't coded to go up if we don't have left or right children, then how it goes up programaticaly

[@LucidProgramming]

Hi Tammay. Thanks for the comment. You might want to check out my recursion playlist if that part is tripping you up. I think it clarifies your confusion. Cheers!

[@hackytech7494]

@@LucidProgramming Ok Thank you so much sir. I will go through that playlist first.

[@LucidProgramming]

@@hackytech7494 Cheers!

[@kshitijtewari2025]

Thanks Sir, what is difference b/w class Node(object): and class Node:

[@LucidProgramming]

No difference at all!

[@amithpandit4043]

That's right. No difference. According to the link below: in Python 2.7 and older, you need to add the object inside parenthesis. In Python 3 and above, it doesn't make a difference. introtopython.org/classes.html

[@abhinavreddy5350]

@@amithpandit4043 kk tq :)

[@musictrader8990]

What is the "object" argument you pass when creating class?

[@LucidProgramming]

It's legacy Python. You can do either class Name: or class Name(object):

[@NoorAli-uh4uq]

Thanks for thsi amazing content but I have one question in the print function where is tree coming from? for example line 3 in the code below, there is no varible called tree so I don't understand why you are using? and instead can I use self.root. Thanks 1.def print_tree(self, traversal_type): 2.if traversal_type == "pre_order": 3. return self.pre_order(tree.root, " ") 4.elif traversal_type == "in_order": 5. return self.in_order(tree.root, " ") 6.elif traversal_type == "post_order": 7.return self.post_order(tree.root, " ") else: print("Traversal" + str(traversal_type), " is not supported") return False

[@LucidProgramming]

Hi Noor. If you print the type of tree, this might cast light as to what this is referring to. For instance: print(type(tree)). Using tree.root or self.root have the same effect.

[@valeriasalas4700]

Hello, great video. What if I wanted to create a nested list that represented the tree?

[@LucidProgramming]

Thanks. I'm not sure how to answer the question. It's kind of like asking "how can I loop over the elements in the tree"? Well, you just use a for loop to do so.

[@supamdeepbains5172]

best explanation on youtube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@LucidProgramming]

Haha, cheers Spamdeep, I really appreciate that :). Happy coding, and thanks for the kind comment!

[@ravitanwar9537]

@@LucidProgramming actually the name is supamdeep not spamdeep

[@LucidProgramming]

@@ravitanwar9537 Whoops. Must have been my autocorrect? Sorry about that. Thanks for catching, Ravi.

[@jingfenghong2312]

These are awesome videos I have ever seen. I have a question, why don't you use self.root in print_tree() function, but use tree.root?

[@LucidProgramming]

Thanks! And either convention is fine there. Using self.root would work just as well. Cheers!

[@jingfenghong2312]

@@LucidProgramming Thank you a lot, these videos would definitely help me in my future career interview! I will recommend it to other friends.

[@LucidProgramming]

@@jingfenghong2312 Thank you, I sincerely appreciate that!

[@prakhargurha1427]

Why is it necessary to define class Node(object) and not class Node() simply as we did in linked list.What's the significance of object

[@LucidProgramming]

They are equivalent. The former is how things were done in Python 2.7, and the latter is more modern.

[@conquerworld_in]

Hello sir, I am not able to understand that how everything is happening here as in if how are we writing start.value with inheritance and those things!

[@LucidProgramming]

You might want to look into Python classes to clarify this.

[@conquerworld_in]

@@LucidProgramming I saw that but then also I wasn't able to understand

[@LucidProgramming]

@@conquerworld_in You might need to be more specific. I offer tutoring services if you feel like you're stuck on a subject.

[@gokusaiyan1128]

What are your vim settings/plugins? I like it

[@LucidProgramming]

Good question! Much of my configuration is covered here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ3FZKSLnrhlkLs

[@VarunKumar-pz5si]

Can you explain the recursion in pre-order traversal?

[@LucidProgramming]

Got a whole playlist on recursion you can check out!

[@ravitanwar9537]

inorder traversal result is supposed to be in sorted order . any ideas ?

[@LucidProgramming]

Hi Ravi. Not necessarily for any binary tree, no. If you applied an inorder traversal to a binary search tree, then yes, the nodes would appear in order based on the ordering principle of the binary search tree. This is not necessarily true for a binary tree as it does not have this ordering principle imposed on it. Hope that makes sense, and thanks for your question.

[@LucidProgramming]

I should also say that "in order" is with respect to how one reads the nodes of a binary tree when reading the nodes from left to right. Note that, of course if the data values of the nodes are not likewise ordered in such a fashion, an in order traversal will not yield an output in sequential order. Hope that clarifies things further. Cheers.

[@ravitanwar9537]

yeah you are right . that was binary search tree i was talking about .thanks for such an informative reply. can you share your email id ?

[@LucidProgramming]

Great, glad that cleared things up. You can find my contact in the "about" section of my channel. However, unless you intend to reach out regarding a tutoring or consulting session, I would encourage you to keep communication in the comment section so as to help other viewers who may be encountering similar problems or who have similar questions. Cheers!