[issue46086] Add ratio_min() function to the difflib library

Tal Einat added the comment: I'm closing this for now since nobody has followed up and to the best of my understanding this wouldn't be an appropriate addition to the stdlib. This can be re-opened in the future if needed, of course. -- resolution: -> rejected stage: patch review ->

[issue46086] Add ratio_min() function to the difflib library

Tal Einat added the comment: Thanks for the suggestion and the PR, Giacomo! However, in my opinion, this is better suited to be something like a cookbook recipe. The number of use cases for this will be low, and there would be little advantage to having this in the stdlib rather than elsewh

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[issue46086] Add ratio_min() function to the difflib library

New submission from Giacomo : Here I propose a new function, namely .ratio_min(self,m). .ratio_min(self,m) is an extension of the difflib's function .ratio(self). Equivalently to .ratio(self), .ratio_min(self,m) returns a measure of two sequences' similarity (float in [0,1]). In addition to