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hamming_distance(str1, str2)[source]

Calculate the Hamming distance between two strings

Parameters :

str1 : str

First string to use in comparison

str2 : str

Second string to use in comparison

Returns :

distance : int

The Hamming distance between strings. In other words, the number of character inequalities.