Leetcode 235 Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Search Tree

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

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

_______6______
/              \
___2__          ___8__
/      \        /      \
0      _4       7       9
/  \
3   5

For example, the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of nodes

2

and

8

is

6

. Another example is LCA of nodes

2

and

4

is

2

, since a node can be a descendant of itself according to the LCA definition.

BST，从root处开始，满足公共root的node必为满足值介于两者之间的第一个值

class Solution:
# @param {TreeNode} root
# @param {TreeNode} p
# @param {TreeNode} q
# @return {TreeNode}
def lowestCommonAncestor(self, root, p, q):
while 1:
if root.val > max(p.val,q.val):
root = root.left
elif root.val < min(p.val,q.val):
root = root.right
else:
return root