At 14:01 Wed 06 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >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!
I used difflib.get_close_matches for something similar: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-difflib.html HTH. -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
