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Micro-Drill #256 — Trie insert and search

Hash Strategies Target: 15s

Trie insert walks/creates nodes per character, marks end. Search is identical but checks existence instead of creating.

class TrieNode:
    def __init__(self):
        self.children = {}
        self.is_end = False

def insert(root, word):
    node = root
    for ch in word:
        if ch not in node.children:
            node.children[ch] = TrieNode()
        node = node.children[ch]
    node.is_end = True

Type it from memory. Go.

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