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Overview

jellyfish is a library for approximate & phonetic matching of strings.

Source:https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish

Documentation:https://jamesturk.github.io/jellyfish/

Issues:https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish/issues

Included Algorithms

String comparison:

Levenshtein Distance
Damerau-Levenshtein Distance
Jaccard Index
Jaro Distance
Jaro-Winkler Distance
Match Rating Approach Comparison
Hamming Distance

Phonetic encoding:

American Soundex
Metaphone
NYSIIS (New York State Identification and Intelligence System)
Match Rating Codex

Example Usage

>>>importjellyfish>>>jellyfish.levenshtein_distance('jellyfish','smellyfish')2>>>jellyfish.jaro_similarity('jellyfish','smellyfish')0.89629629629629637>>>jellyfish.damerau_levenshtein_distance('jellyfish','jellyfihs')1>>>jellyfish.metaphone('Jellyfish')'JLFX'>>>jellyfish.soundex('Jellyfish')'J412'>>>jellyfish.nysiis('Jellyfish')'JALYF'>>>jellyfish.match_rating_codex('Jellyfish')'JLLFSH'