Levenshtein Distance

Overview

Distance Function that is able to compare two strings using the Damerau-Levenshtein-Distance.

For computation the pyxdameraulevenshtein module is used, which is implemented in Cython.

Reference

class munin.distance.levenshtein.LevenshteinDistance(provider=None)[source]

Compute the damerau-levenshtein distance of two words.

Takes: two lists of length 1.

This class is supposed to be overriden, but can also be used as fallback.

__call__ is implemented as shortcut to compute()

Parameters:name (String.) – Name of the DistanceFunction (used for display)

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