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Shortest Word Distance

Given a list of words and two different words, find the shortest distance between them in the list (measured by index difference).

Input:

practice,makes,perfect,coding,makes
practice
coding

Output:

Reasoning:

The input list of words is split into individual words: practice, makes, perfect, coding, makes
The two target words are identified: practice and coding
The indices of these words in the list are found: practice is at index 0 and coding is at index 3
The shortest distance between them is calculated as the absolute difference in their indices: $|0 - 3| = 3$
The final output is the calculated shortest distance: 3

Editor

Python 3.13.1

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