Package for calculating Levenshtein distance and similarity
Project description
The Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two strings. With this package you can calculate the Levenshtein distance and ratio between two words, or get the most similar word in a list of words.
More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance
Installation
pip install levenshtein-packageAvailable methods
calculate_distance
calculate_similarity
get_most_similar_in_list
Examples
>>> from levenshtein import calculate_distance, calculate_similarity, get_most_similar_in_list
>>> calculate_distance("apple", "pear")
4
>>> calculate_similarity("apple", "pear")
0.4444444444444444
>>> get_most_similar_in_list("apple", ["pear", "peach", "apricot", "banana"])
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