Performing Breadth First Search recursively

Question

Let\'s say you wanted to implement a breadth-first search of a binary tree recursively. How would you go about it?

Is it possible using only the call-stack

Answer 1

Here's a python implementation:

graph = {'A': ['B', 'C'],
         'B': ['C', 'D'],
         'C': ['D'],
         'D': ['C'],
         'E': ['F'],
         'F': ['C']}

def bfs(paths, goal):
    if not paths:
        raise StopIteration

    new_paths = []
    for path in paths:
        if path[-1] == goal:
            yield path

        last = path[-1]
        for neighbor in graph[last]:
            if neighbor not in path:
                new_paths.append(path + [neighbor])
    yield from bfs(new_paths, goal)


for path in bfs([['A']], 'D'):
    print(path)