I've been messing around learning about objects and classes, and as I finally felt that I managed to wrap my head around how to construct a Binary Search Tree in python, I ran into an issue. Here's my code:
class node:
def __init__(self,value):
self.value = value
self.left = None
self.right = None
class BST:
def __init__(self):
self.root = None
def add(self,current,value):
if self.root == None:
self.root = node(value)
else:
if value < current.value:
if current.left == None:
current.left = node(value)
else:
self.add(current.left,value)
if value > current.value:
if current.right == None:
current.right = node(value)
else:
self.add(current.right,value)
def visit(self,node):
print(node.value)
def inorder(self,current):
self.inorder(current.left)
self.visit(current)
self.inorder(current.right)
Tree = BST()
root = node(2)
Tree.root = root
Tree.add(Tree.root,7)
Tree.inorder(Tree.root)
after running the code, I got an error: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'left'
.
The error comes out of the inorder function, as apparently the value I'm inserting into the function is an object without a type.
as you can see, the root of the tree is a node object, so it should have the attribute "left" as per coded in the class. I would really appreciate if someone could help me with what I'm getting wrong.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I should note that I checked whether the root is a node with the isinstance()
, function, and indeed it returned True.
I think you sould check current is not None before access its left and right.
def inorder(self, current):
if current:
self.inorder(current.left)
self.visit(current)
self.inorder(current.right)