Returns the distance to other
Parameters: | other : BiologicalSequence
distance_fn : function, optional
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Returns: | float
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Raises: | skbio.core.exception.BiologicalSequenceError
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See also
fraction_diff, fraction_same, skbio.core.distance.DistanceMatrix, scipy.spatial.distance.hamming
Examples
>>> from skbio.core.sequence import BiologicalSequence
>>> s = BiologicalSequence('GGUC')
>>> t = BiologicalSequence('AGUC')
>>> s.distance(t)
0.25
>>> def dumb_dist(s1, s2): return 0.42
>>> s.distance(t, dumb_dist)
0.42