Jellyfish supports reasonably fast implementations of almost all popular edit distance functions (Recall how the edit distance functions tell you how similar two sequences/strings are). While FuzzyWuzzy supported mainly Levenshtein distance, this package supports some more string comparison utilities:
- Levenshtein distance
- Damerau-Levenshtein distance
- Jaro distance
- Jaro-Winkler distance
- Match rating approach comparison
- Hamming distance
Additionally, it supports phonetic encodings for English.
Use the following code to install Jellyfish on your machine:
import sys# !{sys.executable} -m pip install jellyfish
Let's try importing the package and setting up some examples to try out:
import jellyfishcorrect_example = ('Narendra ...
