[Flask] Best / Modern approaches for fuzzy name searching?

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  • fzf

    :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

    You might want to look into the algorithm used in fzf. It's not a Python tool, but it's the most practically useful fuzzy matching tool I've used. You might be able to port the algorithm.

  • thefuzz

    Fuzzy String Matching in Python

    Check out https://github.com/seatgeek/thefuzz. It basically provides different methods that take two strings and return a score between 0 and 100 indicating how similar they are. For instance,

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