101. Symmetric Tree

https://leetcode.com/problems/symmetric-tree/description/

Given a binary tree, check whether it is a mirror of itself (ie, symmetric around its center).

For example, this binary tree [1,2,2,3,4,4,3] is symmetric:

    1
   / \
  2   2
 / \ / \
3  4 4  3

But the following [1,2,2,null,3,null,3] is not:

    1
   / \
  2   2
   \   \
   3    3

Note: Bonus points if you could solve it both recursively and iteratively.

Solution:

# Definition for a binary tree node.
# class TreeNode(object):
#     def __init__(self, x):
#         self.val = x
#         self.left = None
#         self.right = None

class Solution(object):
    def isSymmetric(self, root):
        """
        :type root: TreeNode
        :rtype: bool
        """ 
        if not root:
            return True
        else:
            return self.mirror(root.left, root.right)
        
    def mirror(self, left, right):
        if not left or not right:
            return left == right
        if left.val != right.val:
            return False
        return self.mirror(left.left, right.right) and self.mirror(left.right, right.left)