Finding if two strings are almost similar

Question

I want to find out if you strings are almost similar. For example, string like \'Mohan Mehta\' should match \'Mohan Mehte\' and vice versa. Another example, string like \'Um

Answer 1

You can use difflib.sequencematcher if you want something from the stdlib:

from difflib import SequenceMatcher
s_1 = 'Mohan Mehta'
s_2 = 'Mohan Mehte'
print(SequenceMatcher(a=s_1,b=s_2).ratio())
0.909090909091

fuzzywuzzy is one of numerous libs that you can install, it uses the difflib module with python-Levenshtein. You should also check out the wikipage on Approximate_string_matching