jaccard-index 0.0.3

Jaccard Index for Two Strings

jaccard_index

Jaccard Index Computation

This package provides computation Jaccard Index based on n-grams for strings. This can be used as a metric for computing similarity between two strings e.g. Indentity resolution

Installation

Install using pip:

#  pip install jaccard-index 

To install using the archive, unpack it and run:

# python setup.py install

Usage

A common use case is to compare strings for similarity:

>>> from jaccard_index.jaccard import jaccard_index
>>> jaccard_index("abc","")
0
>>> jaccard_index("accessary", "accessory")
0.6
>>> jaccard_index("coffee", "coffee")
1