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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 hamming_distance(word1, word2):
 """ Computes the Hamming distance. [Reference]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance [Article]: Hamming, Richard W. (1950), "Error detecting and error correcting codes", Bell System Technical Journal 29 (2):
 147–160 """

    from operator import ne
    if len(word1) != len(word2):
        raise WrongLengthException('The words need to be of the same length!')

    return sum(map(ne, word1, word2))