How do I find the distance between two points? [closed]

Question

Let's say I have x1, y1 and also x2, y2.

How can I find the distance between them? It's a simple math function, but is there a snippet of this online?

Answer 1

dist = sqrt( (x2 - x1)**2 + (y2 - y1)**2 ) 

As others have pointed out, you can also use the equivalent built-in math.hypot():

dist = math.hypot(x2 - x1, y2 - y1)