thomas coopman schrieb: > I need a function that groups almost equal strings. It seems most easy > to me, to do this with a hash function.
What do you mean be "almost equal"? By which criterium? Spelling, Pronounciation? Semantics? > I think I once read something about it, but I can't find it, > does somebody know how to do this? Maybe you mean the "soundex" algorithm? See, for example, here: http://diveintopython.org/performance_tuning/index.html Chris _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor