Merge pull request #5642 from LubosKolouch/master

Challenge 151 LK

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+import re
+
+
+def get_min_depth(input: str):
+    """Calculate the depth"""
+    # Input: '1 | 2 3 | 4 5'
+
+    # iterate through the layers. If the next layer does not have 2^n items,
+    # there must be a leaf node
+
+    input = re.sub(r"\s", "", input)
+    layers = input.split("|")
+
+    for layer_count, _ in enumerate(layers, 1):
+        # if not defined means we are at the last layer
+
+        try:
+            items_count = len(layers[layer_count])
+        except IndexError:
+            return layer_count
+
+        if items_count != 2**layer_count:
+            return layer_count
+
+    return None
+
+
+assert get_min_depth("1 | 2 3 | 4 5") == 2
+assert get_min_depth("1 | 2 3 | 4 *  * 5 | * 6") == 3
+assert get_min_depth("1 | 2 3") == 2