jellyfish 0.5.6

a library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.

Jellyfish is a python library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.

Written by James Turk <[e-mail]> and Michael Stephens.

See https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish/graphs/contributors for contributors.

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'