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Given a binary tree, find its minimum depth.

The minimum depth is the number of nodes along the shortest path from the root node down to the nearest leaf node.

Note: A leaf is a node with no children.

Example 1:

Input: root = [3,9,20,null,null,15,7]
Output: 2

Example 2:

Input: root = [2,null,3,null,4,null,5,null,6]
Output: 5

Solution

class TreeNode:
    def __init__(self, val=0, left=None, right=None):
        self.val = val
        self.left = left
        self.right = right
        
class Solution:
    def minDepth(self, root: Optional[TreeNode]) -> int:
        if root is None:
            return 0
        if root.left is None and root.right is None:
            return 1
        if root.left is None:
            return self.minDepth(root.right) + 1
        if root.right is None:
            return self.minDepth(root.left) + 1
        
        return min(self.minDepth(root.left), self.minDepth(root.right)) + 1