Landon Sanders landonsanders
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June 5, 2014 13:28
Compute the Manhattan Distance between two points in a space
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| def manhattan(rating1, rating2): | |
| """Computes the Manhattan distance. Both rating1 and rating2 are | |
| dictionaries of the form | |
| {'The Strokes': 3.0, 'Slightly Stoopid': 2.5 ...""" | |
| distance = 0 | |
| for key in rating1: | |
| if key in rating2: | |
| distance += abs(rating1[key] - rating2[key]) | |
| return distance |