balanced-binary-tree.py

# Time:  O(n)
# Space: O(h), h is height of binary tree
#
# Given a binary tree, determine if it is height-balanced.
#
# For this problem, a height-balanced binary tree is defined as a binary tree 
# in which the depth of the two subtrees of every node never differ by more than 1.
#

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

class Solution:
    # @param root, a tree node
    # @return a boolean
    def isBalanced(self, root):
        return (self.getHeight(root) >= 0)
    
    def getHeight(self, root):
        if root is None:
            return 0
        left_height, right_height = self.getHeight(root.left), self.getHeight(root.right)
        if left_height < 0 or right_height < 0 or abs(left_height - right_height) > 1:
            return -1
        return max(left_height, right_height) + 1
        
if __name__ == "__main__":
    root = TreeNode(0)
    root.left = TreeNode(1)
    result = Solution().isBalanced(root)
    print result
    
    root.left.left = TreeNode(2)
    result = Solution().isBalanced(root)
    print result