How do i check if two strings are similar in python?
How do I get the probability of a string being similar to another string in Python? Show I want to get a decimal value like 0.9 (meaning 90%) etc. Preferably with standard Python and library. e.g.
smci 30.5k18 gold badges110 silver badges145 bronze badges asked Jun 30, 2013 at 7:35
5 There is a built in.
Using it:
answered Jun 30, 2013 at 8:18
Inbar RoseInbar Rose 39.8k24 gold badges82 silver badges128 bronze badges 5 Solution #1: Python builtinuse SequenceMatcher from difflib pros: native python library, no need extra package. example :
Solution #2: jellyfish libraryits a very good library with good coverage
and few issues. it supports: pros: easy to use, gamut of supported algorithms, tested. example:
answered Sep 8, 2017 at 22:49
Iman MirzadehIman Mirzadeh 11.9k1 gold badge39 silver badges44 bronze badges 1
answered Jan 18, 2017 at 22:26
BLTBLT 2,3721 gold badge24 silver badges33 bronze badges 3 You can create a function like:
answered Jun 30, 2013 at 7:41
3 Package distance includes Levenshtein distance:
answered Apr 10, 2017 at 22:02
Note,
Finding the similarity between two strings is closely related to the concept of pairwise sequence alignment in bioinformatics. There are many dedicated libraries for this including biopython. This example implements the Needleman Wunsch algorithm:
Using biopython or another bioinformatics package is more flexible than any part of the python standard library since many different scoring schemes and algorithms are available. Also, you can actually get the matching sequences to visualise what is happening:
answered Dec 4, 2019 at 9:36
Chris_RandsChris_Rands 36.4k12 gold badges79 silver badges110 bronze badges The builtin
answered Apr 30, 2018 at 14:24
damiodamio 5,8513 gold badges35 silver badges55 bronze badges You can find most of the text similarity methods and how they are calculated under this link: https://github.com/luozhouyang/python-string-similarity#python-string-similarity Here some examples;
answered Apr 9, 2020 at 14:38
MikeMike 1551 silver badge8 bronze badges BLEUscore
Code:
Examples: By updating C1 and C2.
You can also compare sentence similarity:
answered Feb 15, 2021 at 11:53
Reema Q KhanReema Q Khan 8281 gold badge7 silver badges18 bronze badges There are many metrics to define similarity and distance between
strings as mentioned above. I will give my 5 cents by showing an example of The libraries
Jaccard Similarity
and we get:
And for the
and we get:
Edit Distance
and we get:
And finally,
and we get:
Cosine Similarity on Q-Grams (q=2) Another
solution is to work with the
and we get:
answered Sep 10, 2020 at 22:48
George PipisGeorge Pipis 1,16414 silver badges7 bronze badges Textdistance: TextDistance – python library for comparing distance between two or more sequences by many algorithms. It has Textdistance
Example1:
Output: 1 Example2:
Output: 0.75 Thanks and Cheers!!! answered Oct 19, 2020 at 19:38
DRVDRV 5261 gold badge6 silver badges18 bronze badges Adding the Spacy NLP library also to the mix;
Run with Robert Kern's line_profiler
However the time's are revealing
answered Apr 21 at 8:05
Alex PunnenAlex Punnen 4,4382 gold badges52 silver badges64 bronze badges Here's what i thought of:
answered Dec 1, 2020 at 21:22
In stack overflow, when you tries to add a tag or post a question, it bring up all relevant stuff. This is so convenient and is exactly the algorithm that I am looking for. Therefore, I coded a query set similarity filter.
Explanation
answered Oct 29, 2021 at 14:06
WeiloryWeilory 2,02811 silver badges26 bronze badges Can you use == to compare strings in Python?Python String comparison can be performed using equality (==) and comparison (<, >, !=
How do you determine if two strings are similar?You can check the equality of two Strings in Java using the equals() method. This method compares this string to the specified object. The result is true if and only if the argument is not null and is a String object that represents the same sequence of characters as this object.
Can you use == to compare two strings?You should not use == (equality operator) to compare these strings because they compare the reference of the string, i.e. whether they are the same object or not. On the other hand, equals() method compares whether the value of the strings is equal, and not the object itself.
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