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Can you provide a code to sum of Manhattan distances between repetitions in a String and the other steps required given the following:
Sum of Manhattan distances between repetitions in a String | Function to find the sum of the manhattan distances between same characters in string.
Vector to store indices for each unique character of the string.
Append the position of each character in their respective vectors.
Store the required result.
Iterate over all the characters.
Calculate sum of all elements present in the vector.
Traverse the current vector.
Find suffix [ i + 1 ].
Adding distance of all pairs whose first element is i and second element belongs to [ i + 1 , n ].
Prthe result.
Driver Code.
Given Input.
Function Call"
How can the above be solved in Python?
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#Here is code to sum of Manhattan distances between repetitions in a String and the other steps required.
 def SumofDistances ( s ) :
	v = [ [ ] for i in range ( 26 ) ]
	for i in range ( len ( s ) ) :
		v [ ord ( s [ i ] ) - ord ( ' a ' ) ] . append ( i )
	ans = 0
	for i in range ( 26 ) :
		sum = 0
		for j in range ( len ( v [ i ] ) ) :
			sum += v [ i ] [ j ]
		for j in range ( len ( v [ i ] ) ) :
			sum -= v [ i ] [ j ]
			ans += ( sum - ( len ( v [ i ] ) - 1 - j ) * ( v [ i ] [ j ] ) )
	print ( ans )
if __name__ == ' _ _ main _ _ ' :
	s = " ababa "
	SumofDistances ( s )