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TheFuzz

Fuzzy string matching like a boss. It uses Levenshtein Distance <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance>_ to calculate the differences between sequences in a simple-to-use package.

Requirements

• Python 3.8 or higher
• rapidfuzz <https://github.com/maxbachmann/RapidFuzz/>_

For testing

-  pycodestyle
-  hypothesis
-  pytest

Installation
============

Using pip via PyPI

.. code:: bash

    pip install thefuzz


Using pip via GitHub

.. code:: bash

    pip install git+git://github.com/seatgeek/thefuzz.git@0.19.0#egg=thefuzz

Adding to your ``requirements.txt`` file (run ``pip install -r requirements.txt`` afterwards)

.. code:: bash

    git+ssh://git@github.com/seatgeek/thefuzz.git@0.19.0#egg=thefuzz

Manually via GIT

.. code:: bash

    git clone git://github.com/seatgeek/thefuzz.git thefuzz
    cd thefuzz
    python setup.py install


Usage
=====

.. code:: python

    >>> from thefuzz import fuzz
    >>> from thefuzz import process

Simple Ratio

.. code:: python

>>> fuzz.ratio("this is a test", "this is a test!")
    97

Partial Ratio

.. code:: python

    >>> fuzz.partial_ratio("this is a test", "this is a test!")
        100

Token Sort Ratio

.. code:: python

>>> fuzz.ratio("fuzzy wuzzy was a bear", "wuzzy fuzzy was a bear")
    91
>>> fuzz.token_sort_ratio("fuzzy wuzzy was a bear", "wuzzy fuzzy was a bear")
    100

Token Set Ratio

.. code:: python

    >>> fuzz.token_sort_ratio("fuzzy was a bear", "fuzzy fuzzy was a bear")
        84
    >>> fuzz.token_set_ratio("fuzzy was a bear", "fuzzy fuzzy was a bear")
        100

Partial Token Sort Ratio

.. code:: python

>>> fuzz.token_sort_ratio("fuzzy was a bear", "wuzzy fuzzy was a bear")
    84
>>> fuzz.partial_token_sort_ratio("fuzzy was a bear", "wuzzy fuzzy was a bear")
    100

Process

.. code:: python

    >>> choices = ["Atlanta Falcons", "New York Jets", "New York Giants", "Dallas Cowboys"]
    >>> process.extract("new york jets", choices, limit=2)
        [('New York Jets', 100), ('New York Giants', 78)]
    >>> process.extractOne("cowboys", choices)
        ("Dallas Cowboys", 90)

You can also pass additional parameters to ``extractOne`` method to make it use a specific scorer. A typical use case is to match file paths:

.. code:: python

    >>> process.extractOne("System of a down - Hypnotize - Heroin", songs)
        ('/music/library/good/System of a Down/2005 - Hypnotize/01 - Attack.mp3', 86)
    >>> process.extractOne("System of a down - Hypnotize - Heroin", songs, scorer=fuzz.token_sort_ratio)
        ("/music/library/good/System of a Down/2005 - Hypnotize/10 - She's Like Heroin.mp3", 61)

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