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Overview

jellyfish is a library for approximate & phonetic matching of strings.

Source: https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish

Documentation: https://jamesturk.github.io/jellyfish/

Issues: https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish/issues

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Included Algorithms

String comparison:

  • Levenshtein Distance
  • Damerau-Levenshtein Distance
  • Jaro Distance
  • Jaro-Winkler Distance
  • Match Rating Approach Comparison
  • Hamming Distance

Phonetic encoding:

  • American Soundex
  • Metaphone
  • NYSIIS (New York State Identification and Intelligence System)
  • Match Rating Codex

Implementations

Each algorithm has Rust and Python implementations.

The Rust implementations are used by default. The Python implementations are a remnant of an early version of the library and will probably be removed in 1.0.

To explicitly use a specific implementation, refer to the appropriate module::

import jellyfish._jellyfish as pyjellyfish
import jellyfish.rustyfish as rustyfish

If you've already imported jellyfish and are not sure what implementation you are using, you can check by querying jellyfish.library.

  if jellyfish.library == 'Python':
      # Python implementation
  elif jellyfish.library == 'Rust':
      # Rust implementation

Example Usage

>>> import jellyfish
>>> jellyfish.levenshtein_distance('jellyfish', 'smellyfish')
2
>>> jellyfish.jaro_similarity('jellyfish', 'smellyfish')
0.89629629629629637
>>> jellyfish.damerau_levenshtein_distance('jellyfish', 'jellyfihs')
1

>>> jellyfish.metaphone('Jellyfish')
'JLFX'
>>> jellyfish.soundex('Jellyfish')
'J412'
>>> jellyfish.nysiis('Jellyfish')
'JALYF'
>>> jellyfish.match_rating_codex('Jellyfish')
'JLLFSH'