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1325. Delete Leaves With a Given Value

Given a binary tree root and an integer target, delete all the leaf nodes with value target.

Note that once you delete a leaf node with value target, if it's parent node becomes a leaf node and has the value target, it should also be deleted (you need to continue doing that until you can't).

Example 1:

Input: root = [1,2,3,2,null,2,4], target = 2
Output: [1,null,3,null,4]
Explanation: Leaf nodes in green with value (target = 2) are removed (Picture in left). 
After removing, new nodes become leaf nodes with value (target = 2) (Picture in center).

Example 2:

Input: root = [1,3,3,3,2], target = 3
Output: [1,3,null,null,2]

Example 3:

Input: root = [1,2,null,2,null,2], target = 2
Output: [1]
Explanation: Leaf nodes in green with value (target = 2) are removed at each step.

Example 4:

Input: root = [1,1,1], target = 1
Output: []

Example 5:

Input: root = [1,2,3], target = 1
Output: [1,2,3]

Constraints:

• 1 <= target <= 1000
• Each tree has at most 3000 nodes.
• Each node's value is between [1, 1000].

Solutions (Python)

1. Postorder Traversal

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

class Solution:
    def removeLeafNodes(self, root: TreeNode, target: int) -> TreeNode:
        if not root:
            return None

        root.left = self.removeLeafNodes(root.left, target)
        root.right = self.removeLeafNodes(root.right, target)

        if not root.left and not root.right and root.val == target:
            return None

        return root