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Hamming Distance Simplified
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| def hamming_distance(enc_str1, enc_str2): | |
| differing_bits = 0 | |
| for byte in xor(b1, b2): | |
| differing_bits += bin(byte).count("1") | |
| return differing_bits | |
| b1 = bytearray("this is a test") | |
| b2 = bytearray("wokka wokka!!!") | |
| hamming_distance(b1, b2) | |
| # 37 |
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