On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My first thought is that you should be looking at implementations of > Hamming Distance. If you are actually looking for something like > SOUNDEX you might also want to look at the double metaphor algorithm, > which is significantly harder to implement but provides better > matching and is less susceptible to differences based on name origins. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
I responded in the thread of the poster's original message on this subject, but will do the same here. I have a horribly ugly version of the double-metaphone algorithm in python that does work, and may be of some use in solving this problem. -- Stand Fast, tjg. [Timothy Grant] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
