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Write a python function count_matches that, given two strings, counts the number of positions at which the characters are the same. For example,
count_matches('conflate', 'banana') returns 2,
conflate
banana
^ ^
since the n's match at index 1 and the a's match at index 5. The strings to not need to be the same length.
The count_matches function does not read input or print output.

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Write a Python function count_matches that, given two strings, counts the number of positions at which the characters are the same. For
example,
count_matches ('conflate', 'banana') returns 2,
conflate
banana
since the n's match at index 1 and the a's match at index 5. The strings do not need to be the same length.
The count matches function does not read input or print output.
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