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[Daniel Yoo]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Daniel Yoo wrote:
> 
> > Imagine if we wanted to go through a list of names:
> > 
> > ###
> > >>> for name in ['herimone', 'potter', 'weasley']:
> > ...     print "Hello,", name
> > ... 
> > Hello, herimone
> 
> That's Hermione. :) (her-MY-oh-knee)
> Speaking as another woman with a difficult-to-pronounce name....


Oh my, I did it again!  *sob*  I have a very hard time with names.  A few
days ago, I spelled "Ron" as "Rob".


I'd better make this Python-relevant.

    misspeled = 'Rob'
    corrected = misspeled[0:-1] + 'n'

I was curious; is there a python module that, given a list of words and a
misspelled word, returns back the "most similar" word?  I do remember
reading about an algorithm that would give the "distance" between two
words, but I haven't found it in Parnassus.