Count letter differences of two strings

Question

This is the behaviour I want:

a: IGADKYFHARGNYDAA
c: KGADKYFHARGNYEAA
2 difference(s).

Answer 1

Here is my solution. This compares 2 strings, it doesn't matter what you put in A or B.

#Declare Variables
a='Here is my first string'
b='Here is my second string'
notTheSame=0
count=0

#Check which string is bigger and put the bigger string in C and smaller string in D
if len(a) >= len(b):
    c=a
    d=b
if len(b) > len(a):
    d=a
    c=b

#While the counter is less than the length of the longest string, compare each letter.
while count < len(c):
    if count == len(d):
        break
    if c[count] != d[count]:
        print(c[count] + " not equal to " + d[count])
        notTheSame = notTheSame + 1
    else:
        print(c[count] + " is equal to " + d[count])
    count=count+1

#the below output is a count of all the differences + the difference between the 2 strings
print("Number of Differences: " + str(len(c)-len(d)+notTheSame))