Fuzzy string matching?
Skip Montanaro
skip at mojam.com
Fri Aug 27 19:54:18 EDT 1999
John> Here are some illustrative results from the Python-supplied soundex
John> module, which generates a 6-byte key:
...
John> This module is incorrect in its handling of multiple occurrences of the
John> same code:
...
I am guilty of dropping the ball. Guido would like sondex.c out of the
core. Tim Peters sent a Python replacement to me. I was supposed to give
it some life. It's still sitting in my inbox. I'll try to take care of it
next week (bug fixes and all).
(I realize that doesn't make Soundex any better for the fuzzy matching
algorithm, but I should at least fix any obvious bugs...)
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