Day146 — fuzzy match

Fuzzy match uses Levenshtein Distance to calculate the similarity between two strings.

seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy

ratio

compare two strings directly

partial_ratio

use “ ” as a separator to split the string. compare the strings in that list of separated strings. return the highest score.

token_sort_ratio

use “ ” as a separator to split the string. sort the list before comparing.

token_set_ratio

use “ ” as a separator to split the string. convert to a set that removes duplication before comparing.

When to use which fuzz function to compare 2 strings

Speeder version of FuzzyWuzzy.

maxbachmann/RapidFuzz

Number does not lie.