Where can the documentation for python-Levenshtein be found online?

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I've found a great python library implementing Levenshtein functions (distance, ratio, etc.) at http://code.google.com/p/pylevenshtein/ but the project seems inactive and the documentation is nowhere to be found. I was wondering if anyone knows better than me and can point me to the documentation.

It looks like the author even included a gendoc.sh that would generate documentation.txt from a website for you, but that website is now done. I assume the official documentation no longer exists where the author means it to. — sihrc, Aug 08 '13 at 19:31
@sihrc, that URL refers to a *tool* used to generate the documentation. It's not available at that URL anymore but you can [still find it elsewhere](http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/dev-python/python-levenshtein/files/genextdoc.py?revision=1.1.1.1&content-type=text%2Fplain). — Brian Cain, Aug 08 '13 at 19:34

score 51 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 05 '14 at 22:45

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Here is an example:

# install with: pip install python-Levenshtein

from Levenshtein import distance
edit_dist = distance("ah", "aho")

answered Jun 05 '14 at 22:45

Renaud

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They should add these 2 lines on their PyPI page, it's worth a thousand words. – Serge Mosin Jun 13 '19 at 07:20
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@SergeMosin here we go https://github.com/ztane/python-Levenshtein/pull/39 – Renaud Jun 17 '19 at 12:35

score 17 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 08 '13 at 19:41

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You won't have to generate the docs yourself. There's an online copy of the original Python Levenshtein API: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/courses/LT1/2011/slides/Python-Levenshtein.html

answered Aug 08 '13 at 19:41

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The official documentation now links here: https://rawgit.com/ztane/python-Levenshtein/master/docs/Levenshtein.html – Emil Stenström May 03 '17 at 08:41

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 08 '13 at 19:34

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Follow instructions at the updated version: https://github.com/joncasdam/python-Levenshtein

To get a generated documentation. This was updated 3 months back.

answered Aug 08 '13 at 19:34

sihrc

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 08 '13 at 19:34

download it from that google repo

extract it

download http://kambing.ui.ac.id/gentoo-portage/dev-python/python-levenshtein/files/genextdoc.py to the same folder where you extracted

double click on gendoc.sh

you should now see a levenstein.html which is the documentation

Where can the documentation for python-Levenshtein be found online?

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