Aproximative string matching

Irmen de Jong irmen.NOSPAM at xs4all.nl
Mon Nov 21 17:51:52 EST 2005


javuchi wrote:
> I'm searching for a library which makes aproximative string matching,
> for example, searching in a dictionary the word "motorcycle", but
> returns similar strings like "motorcicle".
> 
> Is there such a library?
> 

Perhaps the get_close_matches function that is presentt in the standard 
library (in the difflib module) could be useful ?"

--Irmen



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