a library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.
Project description
Jellyfish is a python library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.
jellyfish is a project of Sunlight Labs (c) 2010. All code is released under a BSD-style license, see LICENSE for details.
Written by Michael Stephens <mstephens@sunlightfoundation.com> and James Turk <jturk@sunlightfoundation.com>.
Contributions from Peter Scott.
Source is available at http://github.com/sunlightlabs/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('jellyfish', 'smellyfish')
2
>>> jellyfish.jaro_distance('jellyfish', 'smellyfish')
0.89629629629629637
>>> jellyfish.damerau_levenshtein_distance('jellyfish', 'jellyfihs')
1
>>> jellyfish.metaphone('Jellyfish')
'JLFX'
>>> jellyfish.soundex('Jellyfish')
'J412'
>>> jellyfish.nysiis('Jellyfish')
'JALYF'
>>> jellyfish.match_rating_codex('Jellyfish')
'JLLFSH'
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