We can use recursion to solve this problem, like this:
# 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 maxDepth(self, root):
"""
:type root: TreeNode
:rtype: int
"""
if root is None:
return 0
return 1 + max(self.maxDepth(root.left), self.maxDepth(root.right))But for Performance, we should choose loop to solve this