Question

In python.

Write a program that takes 2 string inputs and calculates the Hamming Distance. Hamming distance between two strings is the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols are different.

The program should output an integer representing this distance.

For example

a = XXWWZZ

b = ZZWWXX

answer = 4

More examples:

"Phone" and "PHOONE" = 3

"God" and "Dog" = 2

"Dog" and "House" = 4

Answer 1

s1 = input("Enter first string: ")
s2 = input("Enter second string: ")

distance = 0
for i in range(max(len(s1), len(s2))):
    if i >= len(s1) or i >= len(s2) or s1[i] != s2[i]:
        distance += 1

print("Hamming distance is", distance)