# The textproc/py-jellyfish port

## py-jellyfish-0.5.6 – Python library for approximate and phonetic string matching

## Description

    Jellyfish is a python library for doing approximate and phonetic
    matching of strings.

    String comparison:

    Levenshtein Distance
    Damerau-Levenshtein Distance
    Jaro Distance
    Jaro-Winkler Distance
    Match Rating Approach Comparison
    Hamming Distance

    Phonetic encoding:

    American Soundex
    Metaphone
    NYSIIS (New York State Identification and Intelligence System)
    Match Rating Codex

WWW: https://github.com/sunlightlabs/jellyfish

Categories:
  lang/python textproc

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- STEM->=18.2v0:devel/py-setuptools
- lang/python/2.7

## Run dependencies

- STEM->=18.2v0:devel/py-setuptools
- lang/python/2.7