scipy.spatial.distance.cityblock¶

scipy.spatial.distance.cityblock(u, v)[source]¶

Computes the City Block (Manhattan) distance.

Computes the Manhattan distance between two 1-D arrays u and v, which is defined as

$\sum_i {\left| u_i - v_i \right|}.$

Parameters:

Parameters:	u : (N,) array_like Input array. v : (N,) array_like Input array.
Returns:	cityblock : double The City Block (Manhattan) distance between vectors u and v.

u : (N,) array_like

Input array.

v : (N,) array_like

Input array.

Returns:

cityblock : double

The City Block (Manhattan) distance between vectors u and v.