Manhattan Distance

Problem

Compute the Manhattan (city-block) distance between two vectors: sum(|a_i - b_i|).

Empty vectors return 0.

Hint

Sum the absolute coordinate differences.

case 1

in: [[3,4],[0,0]]

expected: 7

case 2

in: [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]]

expected: 9

case 3

in: [[-1,-1],[2,3]]

expected: 7

case 4

in: [[5],[5]]

expected: 0

Starter codePython

def manhattan_distance(a, b):
    # Your code here
    pass

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