Your message dated Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:51:39 -0700
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and subject line Re: Bug#547144: ITP: python-editdist -- small and fast
implementation of Levenshtein's edit distance algorithm for Python
has caused the Debian Bug report #547144,
regarding ITP: python-editdist -- small and fast implementation of
Levenshtein's edit distance algorithm for Python
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Ehren Kret <ehren.k...@gmail.com>
* Package name : python-editdist
Version : 0.3
Upstream Author : Damien Miller <d...@mindrot.org>
* URL : http://www.mindrot.org/projects/py-editdist/
* License : ISC
Programming Lang: Python, C
Description : small and fast implementation of Levenshtein's edit
distance algorithm for Python
python-editdist is a Python module to calculate the Levenshtein edit distance
between two strings. It is implemented as a CPython module and is quite fast.
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:25:25AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:25, Ehren Kret <ehren.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Ehren Kret <ehren.k...@gmail.com>
> >
> >
> > * Package name : python-editdist
> > Version : 0.3
> > Upstream Author : Damien Miller <d...@mindrot.org>
> > * URL : http://www.mindrot.org/projects/py-editdist/
> > * License : ISC
> > Programming Lang: Python, C
> > Description : small and fast implementation of Levenshtein's edit
> > distance algorithm for Python
> >
> > python-editdist is a Python module to calculate the Levenshtein edit
> > distance
> > between two strings. It is implemented as a CPython module and is quite
> > fast.
>
> what's the difference with python-levenshtein:
>
> $ apt-cache show python-levenshtein
> ...
> Description: extension for computing string similarities and edit distances
> The Levenshtein module computes Levenshtein distances, similarity ratios,
> generalized medians and set medians of Unicode or non-Unicode strings.
> Because it's implemented in C, it's much faster than the corresponding
> Python library functions and methods.
> .
> The Levenshtein distance is the minimum number of single-character
> insertions, deletions, and substitutions to transform one string into
> another.
> .
> It is useful for spell checking, or fuzzy matching of gettext messages.
>
> --
> Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
> My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
> Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
You are correct. Looks like python-levenshtein has all the functionality I
need. Disregard this ITP. I will close it.
Thanks for pointing out the other python module.
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