Levenshtein
Introduction
The Levenshtein Python C extension module contains functions for fast computation of:
- Levenshtein (edit) distance, and edit operations
- string similarity
- approximate median strings, and generally string averaging
- string sequence and set similarity
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Requirements
- Python 3.10 or later
Installation
pip install levenshtein
Documentation
The documentation for the current version can be found at https://rapidfuzz.github.io/Levenshtein/
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License
Levenshtein is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
See the file LICENSE for the full text of GNU General Public License version 2.
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