similar_text in python

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:18:05 -0200, sudhandra selvi  
<sudhandra_selvi at yahoo.co.in> escribió:

> Does anyone know if Python has a function like similar_text in PHP. It
>  compares two strings and returns a percentage for the match. Anyone
>  know of anything like this in Python and would be willing to send
>  along an example?

See the difflib module.
http://docs.python.org/library/difflib.html

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Gabriel Genellina