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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

  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.

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