[New-bugs-announce] [issue2027] Module containing C implementations of common text algorithms

[Matt Chaput]

New submission from Matt Chaput:

Add a module to the standard library containing fast (C) implementations 
of common text/language related algorithms, to begin specifically Porter 
(and perhaps other) stemming and Levenshtein (and perhaps other) edit 
distance. Both these algorithms are useful in multiple domains, well 
known and understood, and have sample implementations all over the Web, 
but are compute-intensive and prohibitively expensive when implemented 
in pure Python.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 62134
nosy: mchaput
severity: normal
status: open
title: Module containing C implementations of common text algorithms
type: rfe

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