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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def count_string_diff(a,b):
 """Return the number of characters in two strings that don't exactly match"""

    shortest = min(len(a), len(b))
    return sum(a[i] != b[i] for i in range(shortest))