Python Fuzzy Matching (FuzzyWuzzy) - Keep only Best Match

Question

I\'m trying to fuzzy match two csv files, each containing one column of names, that are similar but not the same.

My code so far is as follows:

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Answer 1

Several pieces of your code can be greatly simplified by using process.extractOne() from FuzzyWuzzy. Not only does it just return the top match, you can set a score threshold for it within the function call, rather than needing to perform a separate logical step, e.g.:

process.extractOne(row, data, score_cutoff = 60)

This function will return a tuple of the highest match plus the accompanying score if it finds a match satisfying the condition. It will return None otherwise.