TreeNode.
ancestors
()[source]¶Returns all ancestors back to the root
State: Experimental as of 0.4.0.
This call will return all nodes in the path back to root, but does not include the node instance that the call was made from.
The path, toward the root, from self
list of TreeNode
Examples
>>> from skbio import TreeNode
>>> tree = TreeNode.read(["((a,b)c,(d,e)f)root;"])
>>> [node.name for node in tree.find('a').ancestors()]
['c', 'root']