New submission from Lewis Ball lrjball@gmail.com:

Currently the docs for `difflib.SequenceMatcher.quick_ratio()` just says 'Return an upper bound on ratio() relatively quickly', which doesn't give much of an idea about how that upper bound is calculated. `real_quick_ratio` has similarly brief documentation.

I'll raise a PR shortly to add a more verbose description to each of these ratios, so that it is clear when each should be used.

My current suggestions would be:

quick_ratio Return an upper bound on ratio() relatively quickly. This is the highest possible ratio() given these letters, regardless of their order.

real_quick_ratio Return an upper bound on ratio() very quickly. This is the highest possible ratio() given the lengths of a and b, regardless of their letters. i.e. 2*(min(len(a), len(b))/(len(a) + len(b))

---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 368305 nosy: Lewis Ball, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Docs - difflib.SequenceMatcher quick_ratio and real_quick_ratio improved docs type: enhancement versions: Python 3.9

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