On 11/3/2016 6:47 PM, jlada...@itu.edu wrote:
On Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 1:09:48 PM UTC-7, Neil D. Cerutti wrote:
you may also be
able to use some items "off the shelf" from Python's difflib.
I wasn't aware of that module, thanks for the tip!
difflib.SequenceMatcher.ratio() returns a numerical value which represents
> the "similarity" between two strings. I don't see a precise
definition of
> "similar", but it may do what the OP needs.
I may end up rolling my own algo, but thanks for the tip, this does seem
like useful stuff indeed
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