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LeetCode 510, Medium. Topics: Tree, Binary Search Tree, Binary Tree. View on LeetCode. Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 12 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:

Problem

Given a node in a binary search tree, return the in-order successor of that node in the BST. If that node has no in-order successor, return null. The successor of a node is the node with the smallest key greater than node.val. You will have direct access to the node but not to the root of the tree. Each node will have a reference to its parent node. Below is the definition for Node:
Follow up: Could you solve it without looking up any of the node’s values?

Examples

Example 1
Example 2

Constraints

  • The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [1, 10^4].
  • -10^5 <= Node.val <= 10^5
  • All Nodes will have unique values.

Solution

Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:

Complexity

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Last modified on September 7, 2026