> Are there any Python libraries implementing measurement of similarity > of two strings of Latin characters? > > I'm writing a script to guess-merge two tables based on people's > names, which are not necessarily spelled the same way in both tables > (especially the given names). I would like some function that would > help me make the best guess. > > Many thanks in advance!
Hi folks, just went through this thread and a related one from 2006 and I was wondering what the best solution is for using these string metrics in a database search. If I want to query the database for a string or something that is close to it (close being defined by one of the string metrics discussed above) it seems I have to select each and every word from the database and compare it with the query word which is very ineffective. Very concretely if I have an sqlite db with SQLObject as the ORM what would be the most effective way of doing such a query? Cheers, Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
