Binary Tree Height | Dataford Interview Questions

Mavericks Consulting's hierarchy analysis tool represents each organizational structure as a binary tree. Given the tree's root, return its height, measured as the number of nodes on the longest path from the root to any leaf.

Use an iterative breadth-first search. Process one complete level at a time and count how many levels the traversal contains.

Formal Specification

The input root is either None or a nested dictionary with this structure:

value: an integer node value
left: another node dictionary or None
right: another node dictionary or None

Return an integer representing the tree height. An empty tree has height 0, and a tree containing only its root has height 1.

Constraints

The tree contains between 0 and 10^5 nodes.
Each node value is an integer between -10^9 and 10^9.
Each node has at most one left child and one right child.
The input is a valid binary tree.

Function Signature

def tree_height(root):

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