Answer to Question #176594 in Python for adhi chinna

Question

One Color

Given a string of length N, made up of only uppercase characters 'R' and 'G', where 'R' stands for Red and 'G' stands for Green. Find out the minimum number of characters you need to change to make the whole string of the same colour.Input

The input will be a single line containing a string.Output

The output should be single line containing the integer representing the minimum number of characters you need to change to make the whole string of the same colour.Explanation

For example, if string is "GGGGGGR" . We need to change only the last character to 'G' to make the string same-coloured.then output is 1.

Answer 1

str = input()
r = str.count('R')
g = str.count('G')
#print('Number of symbols to change: ')
print(min(r, g))

Another solution, if you need to count symbols by yourself:

str = input()
r, g = 0, 0
for char in str:
	if char == 'R': 
		r += 1
	else: 
		g += 1
print(min(r, g))