One possibility is to loop over an index to both strings:
s1, s2 = 'noiseless', 'nuisances'
h = 0
for i in range(len(s1)):
if s1[i] != s2[i]:
h += 1
print('The Hamming distance between the strings "{:s}" and "{:s}" is {:d}.'
.format(s1, s2, h))
However, since we need to loop over two sequences at the same time, the more Pythonic solution is to zip them:
s1, s2 = 'noiseless', 'nuisances'
h = 0
for c1, c2 in zip(s1, s2):
if c1 != c2:
h += 1
print('The Hamming distance between the strings "{:s}" and "{:s}" is {:d}.'
.format(s1, s2, h))
zip(s1,s2) produces the sequence of character pairs taken from the strings: ('n', 'n'), ('o', 'u'), ...