Does python have a function like similar_text in PHP

[Tim Peters]

[ron nixon]
> Does anyone know if Python has a function like similar_text in PHP. It
> compares two strings and returns a percentage for the match.

The .ratio() method of SequenceMatcher objects looks like a similar gimmick,
returning a "similarity score" as a float in [0, 1]:

    http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/sequence-matcher.html