rflynn / jellyfish

a python library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.

jellyfish

Jellyfish is a python library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.

Written by James Turk <[e-mail]> and Michael Stephens.

See https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish/graphs/contributors for contributors.

Source is available at http://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish.

Included Algorithms

String comparison:

• Levenshtein Distance
• Damerau-Levenshtein Distance
• Jaro Distance
• Jaro-Winkler Distance
• Match Rating Approach Comparison
• Hamming Distance

Phonetic encoding:

• American Soundex
• Metaphone
• NYSIIS (New York State Identification and Intelligence System)
• Match Rating Codex

Example Usage

>>> import jellyfish >>> jellyfish.levenshtein_distance(u'jellyfish', u'smellyfish') 2 >>> jellyfish.jaro_distance(u'jellyfish', u'smellyfish') 0.89629629629629637 >>> jellyfish.damerau_levenshtein_distance(u'jellyfish', u'jellyfihs') 1

>>> jellyfish.metaphone(u'Jellyfish') 'JLFX' >>> jellyfish.soundex(u'Jellyfish') 'J412' >>> jellyfish.nysiis(u'Jellyfish') 'JALYF' >>> jellyfish.match_rating_codex(u'Jellyfish') 'JLLFSH'