sounds like *soundex* is what you are looking for. google soundex regards Edwin
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 3:09 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: for x,y in word1, word2 ? On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:14:50 -0700, ssecorp wrote: > I know zip but lets say I have a word "painter" and I want to compare it > to a customer's spelling, he might have written "paintor" and I want to > check how many letters are the same. > > Now I know how I could do this, it is not hard. I am just wondering if > these is any specific simple syntax for it. No special syntax for that, but you can combine the `sum()` function, a generator expression and `zip()`: In [40]: sum(int(a == b) for a, b in zip('painter', 'paintor')) Out[40]: 6 Or this way if you think it's more clear: In [41]: sum(1 for a, b in zip('painter', 'paintor') if a == b) Out[41]: 6 Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list The information contained in this message and any attachment may be proprietary, confidential, and privileged or subject to the work product doctrine and thus protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by replying to this message and deleting it and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
