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[Python-ideas] difflib.SequenceMatcher quick_ratio

From: floyd <flo...@floyd.ch>
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 09:56:41 +0200
Hi *

I use this python line quite a lot in some projects:

if difflib.SequenceMatcher.quick_ratio(None, a, b) >= threshold:

I realized that this is performance-wise not optimal, therefore wrote a
method that will return much faster in a lot of cases by using the
length of "a" and "b" to calculate the upper bound for "threshold":

if difflib.SequenceMatcher.quick_ratio_ge(None, a, b, threshold):

I'd say we could include it into the stdlib, but maybe it should only be
a python code recipe?

I would say this is one of the most frequent use cases for difflib, but
maybe that's just my biased opinion :) . What's yours?

See http://bugs.python.org/issue24384

cheers,
floyd
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