jellyfish
Jellyfish is a python library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.
Written by James Turk <dev@jamesturk.net> and Michael Stephens.
See https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish/graphs/contributors for contributors.
See http://jellyfish.readthedocs.io for documentation.
Source is available at http://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish.
Included Algorithms
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
>>> import jellyfish
>>> jellyfish.levenshtein_distance(u'jellyfish', u'smellyfish')
2
>>> jellyfish.jaro_distance(u'jellyfish', u'smellyfish')
0.89629629629629637
>>> jellyfish.damerau_levenshtein_distance(u'jellyfish', u'jellyfihs')
1>>> jellyfish.metaphone(u'Jellyfish')
'JLFX'
>>> jellyfish.soundex(u'Jellyfish')
'J412'
>>> jellyfish.nysiis(u'Jellyfish')
'JALYF'
>>> jellyfish.match_rating_codex(u'Jellyfish')
'JLLFSH'Running Tests
If you are interested in contributing to Jellyfish, you may want to run tests locally. Jellyfish uses tox to run tests, which you can setup and run as follows:
pip install tox # cd jellyfish/ tox