abydos/distance/_minkowski.py
def minkowski(src, tar, qval=2, pval=1, normalized=False, alphabet=None):
    """Return the Minkowski distance (:math:`L^p`-norm) of two strings.

    This is a wrapper for :py:meth:`Minkowski.dist_abs`.

    Parameters
    ----------
    src : str
        Source string (or QGrams/Counter objects) for comparison
    tar : str
        Target string (or QGrams/Counter objects) for comparison
    qval : int
        The length of each q-gram; 0 for non-q-gram version
    pval : int or float
        The :math:`p`-value of the :math:`L^p`-space
    normalized : bool
        Normalizes to [0, 1] if True
    alphabet : collection or int
        The values or size of the alphabet

    Returns
    -------
    float
        The Minkowski distance

    Examples
    --------
    >>> minkowski('cat', 'hat')
    4.0
    >>> minkowski('Niall', 'Neil')
    7.0
    >>> minkowski('Colin', 'Cuilen')
    9.0
    >>> minkowski('ATCG', 'TAGC')
    10.0

    """
    return Minkowski().dist_abs(src, tar, qval, pval, normalized, alphabet)
def minkowski(src, tar, qval=2, pval=1, normalized=False, alphabet=None):
    """Return the Minkowski distance (:math:`L^p`-norm) of two strings.

    This is a wrapper for :py:meth:`Minkowski.dist_abs`.

    Parameters
    ----------
    src : str
        Source string (or QGrams/Counter objects) for comparison
    tar : str
        Target string (or QGrams/Counter objects) for comparison
    qval : int
        The length of each q-gram; 0 for non-q-gram version
    pval : int or float
        The :math:`p`-value of the :math:`L^p`-space
    normalized : bool
        Normalizes to [0, 1] if True
    alphabet : collection or int
        The values or size of the alphabet

    Returns
    -------
    float
        The Minkowski distance

    Examples
    --------
    >>> minkowski('cat', 'hat')
    4.0
    >>> minkowski('Niall', 'Neil')
    7.0
    >>> minkowski('Colin', 'Cuilen')
    9.0
    >>> minkowski('ATCG', 'TAGC')
    10.0

    """
    return Minkowski().dist_abs(src, tar, qval, pval, normalized, alphabet)
def minkowski ( src , tar , qval = 2 , pval = 1 , normalized = False , alphabet = None ) : return Minkowski ( ) . dist_abs ( src , tar , qval , pval , normalized , alphabet )
Return the Minkowski distance (:math:`L^p`-norm) of two strings.

    This is a wrapper for :py:meth:`Minkowski.dist_abs`.

    Parameters
    ----------
    src : str
        Source string (or QGrams/Counter objects) for comparison
    tar : str
        Target string (or QGrams/Counter objects) for comparison
    qval : int
        The length of each q-gram; 0 for non-q-gram version
    pval : int or float
        The :math:`p`-value of the :math:`L^p`-space
    normalized : bool
        Normalizes to [0, 1] if True
    alphabet : collection or int
        The values or size of the alphabet

    Returns
    -------
    float
        The Minkowski distance

    Examples
    --------
    >>> minkowski('cat', 'hat')
    4.0
    >>> minkowski('Niall', 'Neil')
    7.0
    >>> minkowski('Colin', 'Cuilen')
    9.0
    >>> minkowski('ATCG', 'TAGC')
    10.0
Return the Minkowski distance ( : math : L^p - norm ) of two strings .