(Python) Statistical String Comparison

By SnipBot | Published: July 23, 2011

http://docs.python.org/library/difflib.html

  1. >>> import difflib
  2.  
  3. >>> difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, ‘abcde’, ‘abcde’).ratio()
  4. 1.0
  5.  
  6. >>> difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, ‘abcde’, ‘zbcde’).ratio()
  7. 0.80000000000000004
  8.  
  9. >>> difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, ‘abcde’, ‘zyzzy’).ratio()
  10. 0.0
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