=============================== fuzzyfinder

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Fuzzy Finder implemented in Python. Matches partial string entries from a list of strings. Works similar to fuzzy finder in SublimeText and Vim's Ctrl-P plugin.

• Documentation: https://fuzzyfinder.readthedocs.org.
• Source: https://github.com/amjith/fuzzyfinder

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Quick Start

::

$ pip install fuzzyfinder

or 

$ easy_install fuzzyfinder

Usage

::

>>> from fuzzyfinder import fuzzyfinder

>>> suggestions = fuzzyfinder('abc', ['abcd', 'defabca', 'aagbec', 'xyz', 'qux'])

>>> list(suggestions)
['abcd', 'defabca', 'aagbec']

Features

• Simple, easy to understand code.
• No external dependencies, just the python std lib.

How does it work

Blog post describing the algorithm: http://blog.amjith.com/fuzzyfinder-in-10-lines-of-python

Similar Projects

• https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy - Fuzzy matching and auto-correction using levenshtein distance.

Changelog

2.0.0 (2017-01-25)

• Case insensitive matching. (Gokul Soumya)
• Add an accessor function for fuzzy find. (Amjith)
• Support integer inputs. (Matheus)

2.1.0 (2017-01-25)

• Use lookahead regex to find shortest match. (Gokul Soumya)