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scipy.spatial.distance.cityblock

scipy.spatial.distance.cityblock(u, v)

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:

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.