<p>Given two integer arrays <code>preorder</code> and <code>inorder</code> where <code>preorder</code> is the preorder traversal of a binary tree and <code>inorder</code> is the inorder traversal of the same tree, construct and return <em>the binary tree</em>.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong class="example">Example 1:</strong></p>
<img alt="" src="https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/02/19/tree.jpg" style="width: 277px; height: 302px;" />
<pre>
<strong>Input:</strong> preorder = [3,9,20,15,7], inorder = [9,3,15,20,7]
<strong>Output:</strong> [3,9,20,null,null,15,7]
</pre>

<p><strong class="example">Example 2:</strong></p>

<pre>
<strong>Input:</strong> preorder = [-1], inorder = [-1]
<strong>Output:</strong> [-1]
</pre>

<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Constraints:</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li><code>1 &lt;= preorder.length &lt;= 3000</code></li>
	<li><code>inorder.length == preorder.length</code></li>
	<li><code>-3000 &lt;= preorder[i], inorder[i] &lt;= 3000</code></li>
	<li><code>preorder</code> and <code>inorder</code> consist of <strong>unique</strong> values.</li>
	<li>Each value of <code>inorder</code> also appears in <code>preorder</code>.</li>
	<li><code>preorder</code> is <strong>guaranteed</strong> to be the preorder traversal of the tree.</li>
	<li><code>inorder</code> is <strong>guaranteed</strong> to be the inorder traversal of the tree.</li>
</ul>

# Definition for a binary tree node.
# class TreeNode:
#     def __init__(self, val=0, left=None, right=None):
#         self.val = val
#         self.left = left
#         self.right = right
class Solution:
    def buildTree(self, preorder: List[int], inorder: List[int]) -> Optional[TreeNode]:
        """
        build binary tree with pre-order and in-order sequence
        :param preorder:
        :param inorder:
        :return:
        """
        if len(preorder) == 0:
            return None
        if len(preorder) != len(inorder):
            raise Exception("illegal tree data")

        pos_root = inorder.index(preorder[0])

        if pos_root < 0:
            raise Exception("illegal tree data")

        # create root
        left = None
        right = None
        if pos_root > 0:
            left = self.buildTree(preorder[1:pos_root+1], inorder[0:pos_root])
        if pos_root < len(inorder) - 1:
            right = self.buildTree(preorder[pos_root+1:], inorder[pos_root+1:])

        rootNode = TreeNode(preorder[0], left, right)

        return rootNode
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