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jellyfish is a library for approximate & phonetic matching of strings.

Source: https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish

Documentation: https://jamesturk.github.io/jellyfish/

Issues: https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish/issues

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Included Algorithms

String comparison:

Phonetic encoding:

Example Usage

>>> import jellyfish
>>> jellyfish.levenshtein_distance('jellyfish', 'smellyfish')
2
>>> jellyfish.jaro_similarity('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'