how to 'fuzzy' match strings when merge two dataframe in pandas

Question

I have two dataframe df1 and df2.

df1 = pd.DataFrame ({\'Name\': [\'Adam Smith\', \'Anne Kim\', \'John Weber\', \'Ian Ford\'],
             


        

Answer 1

Not sure if fuzzy match is what you are looking for. Maybe make every name a proper name?

df1.Name = df1.Name.apply(lambda x: x.title())
df2.Name = df2.Name.apply(lambda x: x.title())

pd.merge(df1, df2, how='inner', on='Name')