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Jeremy Grifski

Both are great! But, it feels weird to create and throw away a list just for its length. I thought this generator expression solution was clever:

count = sum(1 for x, y in zip(strand_a, strand_b) if x != y)

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Sean

Way smarter, totally tosses the array. Absolutely, and perfecly, pythonic.

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Banji

Hey Jeremy, thank you for sharing a better and clever solution in this post.
thank you for reading this post and leaving a comment to improve this solution.
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Banji

I'm gonna edit my post and add your great solution in my post.
Thank you :)
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