On Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 1:09:48 PM UTC-7, Neil D. Cerutti wrote: > you may also be > able to use some items "off the shelf" from Python's difflib.
I wasn't aware of that module, thanks for the tip! difflib.SequenceMatcher.ratio() returns a numerical value which represents the "similarity" between two strings. I don't see a precise definition of "similar", but it may do what the OP needs. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
