Once installed, you can use Jellyfish to compare strings in just a few lines of code:
The easiest way to download and install Jellyfish is via , the standard package installer for Python. Standard Installation : pip install jellyfish Use code with caution. jellyfish python download
import jellyfish # Compare two similar names s1 = "Jellyfish" s2 = "Smellyfish" # Calculate Levenshtein Distance distance = jellyfish.levenshtein_distance(s1, s2) print(f"Levenshtein Distance: {distance}") # Output: 2 # Check Jaro-Winkler Similarity similarity = jellyfish.jaro_winkler_similarity(s1, s2) print(f"Similarity: {similarity:.4f}") # Output: 0.8963 Use code with caution. Performance and Implementation GitHub Pages documentation Once installed, you can use Jellyfish to compare
: An improvement on Soundex for more accurate phonetic encoding. often used for record linkage.
: Measures of similarity between two strings, often used for record linkage.