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jellyfish
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Jellyfish is a python library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.
jellyfish is a project of Sunlight Labs (c) 2014.
All code is released under a BSD-style license, see LICENSE for details.
Written by James Turk <jturk@sunlightfoundation.com> and Michael Stephens.
See https://github.com/sunlightlabs/jellyfish/graphs/contributors for contributors.
Source is available at http://github.com/sunlightlabs/jellyfish.
Included Algorithms
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String comparison:
* Levenshtein Distance
* Damerau-Levenshtein Distance
* 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
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>>> import jellyfish
>>> jellyfish.levenshtein_distance('jellyfish', 'smellyfish')
2
>>> jellyfish.jaro_distance('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'