jellyfish is a library for approximate & phonetic matching of strings.
Source: https://codeberg.org/jpt/jellyfish
Documentation: https://jellyfish.jpt.sh
Issues: https://codeberg.org/jpt/jellyfish/issues
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
>>> import jellyfish
>>> 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'