Hamming distance is calculated by counting the number of unmatching characters between two same length strings.
Example: The hamming distance between RAT and SAT will be 1. As only 1 character from both strings (R and S) is different.
def hamming_distance(str1, str2):
if len(str1) != len(str2):
print("Error: Input strings must have the same length")
return None
else:
distance = 0
for char1, char2 in zip(str1, str2):
if char1 != char2:
distance += 1
return distance
string1 = input("Enter the first string: ")
string2 = input("Enter the second string: ")
distance = hamming_distance(string1, string2)
if distance is not None:
print(f"The Hamming distance between '{string1}' and '{string2}' is: {distance}")
