Here are the slides on Trees.
This is the code we used to represent Binary Search Trees.
class Node (object): def __init__ (self, data): self.data = data self.lChild = None self.rChild = None class Tree (object): def __init__ (self): self.root = None # Search for a node with the key def search (self, key): current = self.root while ((current != None) and (current.data != key)): if (key < current.data): current = current.lChild else: current = current.rChild return current # Insert a node in the tree def insert (self, val): newNode = Node (val) if (self.root == None): self.root = newNode else: current = self.root parent = self.root while (current != None): parent = current if (val < current.data): current = current.lChild else: current = current.rChild if (val < parent.data): parent.lChild = newNode else: parent.rChild = newNode # In order traversal - left, center, right def inOrder (self, aNode): if (aNode != None): inOrder (aNode.lChild) print aNode.data inOrder (aNode.rChild) # Pre order traversal - center, left, right def preOrder (self, aNode): if (aNode != None): print aNode.data preOrder (aNode.lChild) preOrder (aNode.rChild) # Post order traversal - left, right, center def postOrder (self, aNode): if (aNode != None): postOrder (aNode.lChild) postOrder (aNode.rChild) print aNode.data # Find the node with the smallest value def minimum (self): current = self.root parent = current while (current != None): parent = current current = current.lChild return parent # Find the node with the largest value def maximum (self): current = self.root parent = current while (current != None): parent = current current = current.rChild return parent # Delete a node with a given key def delete (self, key): deleteNode = self.root parent = self.root isLeft = False # If empty tree if (deleteNode == None): return False # Find the delete node while ((deleteNode != None ) and (deleteNode.data != key)): parent = deleteNode if (key < deleteNode.data): deleteNode = deleteNode.lChild isLeft = True else: deleteNode = deleteNode.rChild isLeft = False # If node not found if (deleteNode == None): return False # Delete node is a leaf node if ((deleteNode.lChild == None) and (deleteNode.rChild == None)): if (deleteNode == self.root): self.root = None elif (isLeft): parent.lChild = None else: parent.rChild = None # Delete node is a node with only left child elif (deleteNode.rChild == None): if (deleteNode == self.root): self.root = deleteNode.lChild elif (isLeft): parent.lChild = deleteNode.lChild else: parent.rChild = deleteNode.lChild # Delete node is a node with only right child elif (deleteNode.lChild == None): if (deleteNode == self.root): self.root = deleteNode.rChild elif (isLeft): parent.lChild = deleteNode.rChild else: parent.rChild = deleteNode.rChild # Delete node is a node with both left and right child else: # Find delete node's successor and successor's parent nodes successor = deleteNode.rChild successorParent = deleteNode while (successor.lChild != None): successorParent = successor successor = successor.lChild # Successor node right child of delete node if (deleteNode == self.root): self.root = successor elif (isLeft): parent.lChild = successor else: parent.rChild = successor # Connect delete node's left child to be successor's left child successor.lChild = deleteNode.lChild # Successor node left descendant of delete node if (successor != deleteNode.rChild): successorParent.lChild = successor.rChild successor.rChild = deleteNode.rChild return True