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CodingMediumcod-g065
Subject Tree traversalLevel Mid–Senior~30 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Given `preorder` and `inorder` traversals of a binary tree with distinct values, reconstruct the tree and return its `postorder` traversal as a list. Both inputs describe the same tree and have equal length. `0 <= length <= 3000`.

Implement
pre_in_to_post(preorder: list[int], inorder: list[int]) → list[int]
Examples
in[[3,9,20,15,7],[9,3,15,20,7]]out[9,15,7,20,3]
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

Vibe coding: describe the solution in plain language (or narrate it) and the coach grades your approach. Generating runnable code from your description is coming next.

Run or narrate your approach, then ask the coach.