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LeetCode 669, Medium. Topics: Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Search Tree, Binary Tree. View on LeetCode. Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 15 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:

Problem

Given the root of a binary search tree and the lowest and highest boundaries as low and high, trim the tree so that all its elements lies in [low, high]. Trimming the tree should not change the relative structure of the elements that will remain in the tree (i.e., any node’s descendant should remain a descendant). It can be proven that there is a unique answer. Return the root of the trimmed binary search tree. Note that the root may change depending on the given bounds.

Examples

Example 1
Example 2

Constraints

  • The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [1, 10^4].
  • 0 <= Node.val <= 10^4
  • The value of each node in the tree is unique.
  • root is guaranteed to be a valid binary search tree.
  • 0 <= low <= high <= 10^4

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