After reading this thread, I have wrapped up a different approach,
probably not what you were looking for, but it is very good for what I
wanted: comparing a command string typed by a user with all possible
commands a program can accept, to be able to do typo-correction. The
method will return
Irmen de Jong wrote:
> Wouldn't it be easier if it is normalized to a float between 0.0 and 1.0?
Maybe. You could do that by ignoring "negative" values, and by dividing
by min(len(s1),len(s2))+1. For my application this is irrelevant, I only
need a scale to compare a single word to many differen
