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Binary Tree Leaf Counting and Palindrome Check
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Binary Tree Leaf Counting and Palindrome Check

EasyPython

Problem

Aristocrat game services process hierarchical state data and user-facing text validation. Given a binary tree and a string, return both the number of leaf nodes in the tree and whether the string is a palindrome.

Use recursion for the leaf-node count. The palindrome check may use recursion with two indices. Treat the string as case-sensitive and do not ignore spaces or punctuation.

Formal Specification

Implement process_tree_and_string(root, text).

  • root is either None or a nested list in the form [value, left, right], where left and right use the same representation.
  • text is a string.
  • Return a dictionary with keys leaf_count and is_palindrome.
  • A leaf is a non-null node whose left and right children are both None.
  • An empty tree has zero leaves.
  • An empty string is considered a palindrome.

Constraints

  • The tree contains at most 10^4 nodes
  • Node values are integers from -10^9 to 10^9
  • 0 <= len(text) <= 10^4
  • The tree representation is valid and contains no cycles

Function Signature

def process_tree_and_string(root, text):
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