How to implement a binary search tree in Python?

Question

This is what I\'ve got so far but it is not working:

class Node:
    rChild,lChild,data = None,None,None

    def __init__(self,key):
        self.rChild = N         


        

Answer 1

I find the solutions a bit clumsy on the insert part. You could return the root reference and simplify it a bit:

def binary_insert(root, node):
    if root is None:
        return node
    if root.data > node.data:
        root.l_child = binary_insert(root.l_child, node)
    else:
        root.r_child = binary_insert(root.r_child, node)
    return root