[trimmed to c.l.py] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >How do you compare 2 strings, and determine how much they are "close" to >each other? Eg. > aqwerty > qwertyb >are similar to each other, except for first/last char. But, how do I >quantify that? > >I guess you can say for the above 2 strings that > - at max, 6 chars out of 7 are same sequence --> 85% max > >But, for > qawerty > qwerbty >max correlation is > - 3 chars out of 7 are the same sequence --> 42% max
difflib -- use the string as the sequence -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "And if that makes me an elitist...I couldn't be happier." --JMS -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
