2. 0 = 0 (match)
5. 0 = 0 (match)
7. 0 = 0 (match)

from scipy.spatial.distance import hamming

# For working with strings
string1 = "1010101"
string2 = "1000101"

# Convert to list of integers for hamming function
arr1 = [int(bit) for bit in string1]
arr2 = [int(bit) for bit in string2]

# Calculate Hamming distance
distance = hamming(arr1, arr2) * len(arr1)  # Multiply by length because SciPy returns fraction
print(f"Hamming distance: {int(distance)}")  # Output: Hamming distance: 1

# For DNA sequences
sequence1 = "ATCGTACT"
sequence2 = "ATCGCACT"
distance = hamming(list(sequence1), list(sequence2)) * len(sequence1)
print(f"Hamming distance: {int(distance)}")  # Output: Hamming distance: 1

def hamming_distance(str1: str, str2: str) -> int:
    """Calculate Hamming distance between two strings."""
    if len(str1) != len(str2):
        raise ValueError("Strings must be of equal length")
    return sum(c1 != c2 for c1, c2 in zip(str1, str2))

# Example usage
print(hamming_distance("1010101", "1000101"))  # Output: 1

hamming_distance <- function(str1, str2) {
    if (nchar(str1) != nchar(str2)) {
        stop("Strings must be equal length")
    }
    sum(strsplit(str1, "")[[1]] != strsplit(str2, "")[[1]])
}

# Example usage
hamming_distance("1010101", "1000101")
# [1] 1

# For DNA sequences
hamming_distance("ATCGTACT", "ATCGCACT")
# [1] 1

Damerau-Levenshtein distance

• Damerau-Levenshtein distance