On 2013-10-26 21:54, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <mailman.1628.1382838024.18130.python-l...@python.org>,
> Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
>> I'd be just as happy if Python provided a "sloppy string compare"
>> that ignored case, diacritical marks, and the like.
>
> The problem with putting fuzzy matching in the core language is
> that there is no general agreement on how it's supposed to work.
>
> There are, however, third-party libraries which do fuzzy matching.
> One popular one is jellyfish
> (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jellyfish/0.1.2).
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> Don't expect you can just download and use it right out of the box,
> however. You'll need to do a little thinking about which of the
> several algorithms it includes makes sense for your application.
I'd be content with a baseline that denormalizes and then strips out
combining diacritical marks, something akin to MRAB's
from unicodedata import normalize
"".join(c for c in normalize("NFKD", s) if ord(c) < 0x80)
and tweaking it if that was insufficient.
Thanks for the link to Jellyfish.
-tkc
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