fuzzytrie 0.3.0

FuzzyTrie

FuzzyTrie is a lightweight, fast, and dependency-free fuzzy search library for Python, written in Rust. It performs efficient string matching and correction using a Levenshtein automaton, as described in this paper

Usage

from fuzzytrie import FuzzyTrie

t = FuzzyTrie()

# Initialize automatons for edit distances of 1 and 2
t.init_automaton(d=1)
t.init_automaton(d=2)

for w in ["lavanshtain", "levanshtain", "levenshtain"]:
    t.add(w)

# Perform fuzzy searches with different maximum distances
print(t.search(query="levenshtein", d=2))
# Returns list of distances between query and element, and elements
# >> [(2, 'levanshtain'), (1, 'levenshtain')]
print(t.search(query="levenshtein", d=1))
# >> [(1, 'levenshtain')]

Limitations

• The maximum supported Levenshtein distance is 15.
• Automaton initialization time grows quickly with larger distances. For example:
  • d = 1–3: initialization completes in a fraction of a second.
  • d = 4: initialization takes about 14 seconds.

Benchmarks

Benchmarks were run on a dataset of ~460k words with 500 sample queries for each distance. Results were compared against a brute-force implementation (Levenshtein distance in C from rapidfuzz/Levenshtein)

Theory of operation

Brief explaination of how this works internally can be found here