fuzzywuzzy VS TextDistance

Compare fuzzywuzzy vs TextDistance and see what are their differences.

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fuzzywuzzy TextDistance
20 6
9,067 3,300
0.0% 0.7%
0.0 6.1
about 1 year ago about 19 hours ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v2.0 only MIT License
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fuzzywuzzy

Posts with mentions or reviews of fuzzywuzzy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-24.

TextDistance

Posts with mentions or reviews of TextDistance. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing fuzzywuzzy and TextDistance you can also consider the following projects:

jellyfish - ๐Ÿชผ a python library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.

thefuzz - Fuzzy String Matching in Python

Levenshtein - The Levenshtein Python C extension module contains functions for fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity

pydantic - Data validation using Python type hints

ftfy - Fixes mojibake and other glitches in Unicode text, after the fact.

Python Left-Right Parser - Python Parser

chardet - Python character encoding detector

ceja - PySpark phonetic and string matching algorithms

RapidFuzz - Rapid fuzzy string matching in Python using various string metrics

nider - Python package to add text to images, textures and different backgrounds