code: def minkowski(src, tar, qval=2, pval=1, normalized=False, alphabet=None):
      
      return Minkowski().dist_abs(src, tar, qval, pval, normalized, alphabet)
docs: Return the Minkowski distance (:math:`L^p`-norm) of two strings.
  
      This is a wrapper for :py:meth:`Minkowski.dist_abs`.
  
      Parameters
      ----------
      src : str
          Source string (or QGrams/Counter objects) for comparison
      tar : str
          Target string (or QGrams/Counter objects) for comparison
      qval : int
          The length of each q-gram; 0 for non-q-gram version
      pval : int or float
          The :math:`p`-value of the :math:`L^p`-space
      normalized : bool
          Normalizes to [0, 1] if True
      alphabet : collection or int
          The values or size of the alphabet
  
      Returns
      -------
      float
          The Minkowski distance
  
      Examples
      --------
      >>> minkowski('cat', 'hat')
      4.0
      >>> minkowski('Niall', 'Neil')
      7.0
      >>> minkowski('Colin', 'Cuilen')
      9.0
      >>> minkowski('ATCG', 'TAGC')
      10.0