String Distance Python Packages

recordlinkage

A powerful and modular toolkit for record linkage and duplicate detection in Python

pyhacrf-datamade

:triangular_ruler: Hidden alignment conditional random field for classifying string pairs.

affinegap

:triangular_ruler: A Cython implementation of the affine gap string distance

highered

CRF Edit Distance

stringdist

A Python library for calculating string distances using C extensions (with a pure Python fallback)

levenshtein-finder

Similar string search in Levenshtein distance

stringmetric

:snake: Python implementations of common string distance and similarity algorithms

pysimstr

Fast(ish) string similarity for one vs many comparisons.