Open sanjeevpe opened 2 years ago
Hi, good question! This should be clearly addressed in the documentation.
The main difference is that fuzzysearch is intended for searching through long texts or sequences for partially-matching sub-strings or sub-sequences. FuzzyWuzzy and RapidFuzz, on the other hand, are intended for comparing pairs of strings and calculating similarity metrics (such as the Levenshtein distance) on them.
These are very different use-cases, and the solutions are very different as well.
(I'm leaving this open as a reminder to improve the docs in this regard.)
Thank you for your reply; it is helpful.
Hi, thank you for this repository. I was wondering if you've benchmarked speed, accuracy for Levenshtein distance between fuzzy search v/s RapidFuzz and fuzzywuzzy?
https://github.com/maxbachmann/RapidFuzz