py-stringmatching 0.4.0

Python library for string matching.

py_stringmatching

This project seeks to build a Python software package that consists of a comprehensive and scalable set of string tokenizers (such as alphabetical tokenizers, whitespace tokenizers) and string similarity measures (such as edit distance, Jaccard, TF/IDF). The package is free, open-source, and BSD-licensed.

Important links

• Project Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/anhaidgroup/projects/magellan/py_stringmatching

• Code repository: https://github.com/anhaidgroup/py_stringmatching

• User Manual: http://anhaidgroup.github.io/py_stringmatching/v0.4.x/index.html

• Tutorial: http://anhaidgroup.github.io/py_stringmatching/v0.4.x/Tutorial.html

• How to Contribute: http://anhaidgroup.github.io/py_stringmatching/v0.4.x/Contributing.html

• Developer Manual: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~anhai/py_stringmatching/v0.4.0/dev-manual-v0.4.0.pdf

• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/anhaidgroup/py_stringmatching/issues

• Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/py_stringmatching

Dependencies

py_stringmatching has been tested on Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5 and Python 3.6.

The required dependencies to build the package are NumPy 1.7.0 or higher, Six, and a C or C++ compiler. For the development version, you will also need Cython.

Platforms

py_stringmatching has been tested on Linux, OS X and Windows.