<A HREF="http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/software.html">agrep</A> is a suite of command-line (i.e. UNIX user level) string matching functions, written by Sun Wu and Udi Manber (described in "Fast Text Searching Allowing Errors", CACM, 35(10), 1992). While the majority of the functionality is already found in Python, the ability to perform string searches accepting a limited number of errors has not been available till now. Such searches are able to deal, for example, with spelling errors, or the differences between North American and British English. Alternatively, this form of string matching is able to model the attachment of a primer to a target DNA sequence (i.e. attachment occurs if there are no more than, say, 2 indels). <P><A HREF="http://www.ccsr.cam.ac.uk/~michaelw/pyagrep.html">agrepy 1.0</A> - Python interface to the <A HREF="http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/software.html">agrep</A> approximate string matching implementation. (27-Jul-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------