Jellyfish is a python library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.
jellyfish is a project of Sunlight Labs (c) 2010. All code is released under a BSD-style license, see LICENSE for details.
Written by Michael Stephens <mstephens@sunlightfoundation.com> and James Turk <jturk@sunlightfoundation.com>.
Source is available at http://github.com/sunlightlabs/jellyfish.
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
>>> import jellyfish
>>> jellyfish.levenshtein_distance('jellyfish', 'smellyfish')
2
>>> jellyfish.jaro_distance('jellyfish', 'smellyfish')
0.89629629629629637
>>> jellyfish.damerau_levenshtein_distance('jellyfish', 'jellyfihs')
1>>> jellyfish.metaphone('Jellyfish')
'JLFX'
>>> jellyfish.soundex('Jellyfish')
'J412'
>>> jellyfish.nysiis('Jellyfish')
'JALYF'
>>> jellyfish.match_rating_codex('Jellyfish')
'JLLFSH'