#!/usr/bin/python3

def minkowski_distance(x, y, p=1):
    dist = 0.0
    for i in range(len(x)):
        dist += abs((x[i] - y[i])**p)
    return dist** (1/p)


print('When p=1 it is Manhattan distance: ' ,minkowski_distance([1,2,3],[4,5,6]))
print('When p=2 it is Euclidean distance:',minkowski_distance([1,2,3],[4,5,6], p=2))