What is the advantage of `thefuzz` over `rapidfuzz`?
bram-pkg opened this issue · 2 comments
bram-pkg commented
From what I can tell, this library mostly wraps functionality already implemented in rapidfuzz?
I'm curious what this offers that rapidfuzz does not?
maxbachmann commented
Nothing really. fuzzywuzzy was created a lot earlier. rapidfuzz started out as a rewrite of fuzzywuzz athat has a more open license and is a lot faster. thefuzz is just a renamed version of fuzzywuzzy. Nowadays it is a wrapper for rapidfuzz that handles some small differences in the API of the two libraries.
New users should probably directly use rapidfuzz.
bram-pkg commented
That's clear, since we are starting a new project we'll use rapidfuzz then. Thank you!