On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:28:32 -0900, Israel Brewster wrote: > In initial searching, I did find the "fuzzy" library, which at first > glance appeared to be what I was looking for, but it, apparently, > ignores numbers, with the result that "all 4 one" gave the same output > as "all in", but NOT the same output as "all 4 1" - even though "all 4 > 1" sounds EXACTLY the same, while "all in" is only similar if you ignore > the 4.
Before passing the string to the fuzzy matcher, do a simple text replacement of numbers to their spelled out version: "4" -> "four". You may want to do other text replacements too, based on sound or visual design, for example to deal with Kei$ha a.k.a. Keisha, etc. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
