Today's fun and educational Python recipe

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Wed May 4 21:15:05 EDT 2011


On May 4, 5:26 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
> The test would be more convincing to many with 100000 other geographic
> names (hard to come by, I know), or other english names or words or even
> with longer random strings that matched the lengths of the state names.
> But an average of 5/100000 false positives in 5 runs is good.

I've just posted an update with a spell checker using a large
dictionary.  That should make it easy to validate against some real
world text samples.


Raymond



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