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A python module, provides tools for computing and working with differences between sequences, especially useful for comparing text. Includes functions that produce reports using several common difference formats.

A python module which provides classes and functions for comparing sequences. It can be used for example, for comparing files, and can produce difference information in various formats, including HTML and context and unified diffs.

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Does SequenceMatcher is supported by chaquopy

does chaquopy support from difflib import SequenceMatcher or pip will be install first and what pip will be used to use the SequenceMatcher
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How do I compare two python scripts with the difflib library?

I want to compare two python scripts with the difflib library. One of the scripts is working, the other one is not. I used the following code to compare the two files: import difflib first_file = 'E:\Elzero_learning\onefirst_file.txt' second_file…
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Comparing 2 strings in python "wordwise" and extracting their difference

i just want to compare 2 strings and extract their difference wordwise. Already i've seen about what difflib can do. example: a = "Allows you to compare data with unknown or inconsistent encoding All inputs except n must be bytes objects not str…
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Regex/Difflib/Datastructure algorithm problem

thank you for the help in advance. I'm in a bit of a pickle with this current problem, I have data sets all representing the same data in CSV format except the column names vary to a certain degree, for example ME_loard_MW ME_loard ME_load Would…
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Grouping profiles strings having the same words, but occurring out of order Python

I have a dataframe containing a column of profile types, which looks like this: 0 Android Java 1 Software Development Developer 2 Full-stack Developer 3 …
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Similarity ratio from a list of excluded strings

In comparing the similarity of 2 strings, I want to exclude a list of strings, for example, ignore 'Texas', and 'US'. I tried to use the argument 'isjunk' in Difflib's SequenceMatcher: exclusion = ['Texas', 'US'] sr = SequenceMatcher(lambda x: x in…
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Find differences between a file without checking line by line. Python

I'm trying to check the differences between two output files which contain a mixture of IP Addresses and Subnets. These are stripped from a file and are stored on output1.txt and output2.txt. I'm struggling when doing a comparison. These files don't…
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How to add a condition to difflib?

I want to get the closest match for my row from another data frame but with a condition, I currently have it like this: df['a'].astype(str).apply(lambda x: difflib.get_close_matches(x,df2['a'].astype(str))) but i want it to get the closest match…
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Find Similar Elements in List using Python

I need to look for similar Items in a list using python. (e.g. 'Limits' is similar to 'Limit' or 'Download ICD file' is similar to 'Download ICD zip file') I really want my results to be similar with chars, not with digits (e.g. 'Angle 1' is similar…
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python compare rows in big files

I need to compare two .csv files (files are over 65000 lines). Find lines that are not in the second file. I am using difflib.ndiff: for line in difflib.ndiff(text1, text2): print(line,) But I get unexpected results. The function finds two…
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wxpython - create a wx.html.HtmlWindow() that has highlighted text

Using wxpython 4.1.0, Windows 10 x64, Python 3.7.7 x64... What I want to achieve is pretty basic, but cannot figure it out from reading wxpython documentation and searching the internet. I used python's native difflib module to create an HTML…
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SQL:How to find similar strings in a tuple

I tried to use difflib to get_close_matches in a tuple data...but it does not work...I have earlier used difflib in a JSON file but couldn't use it in an SQL...Result expectationI want to find words similar to the input given..even if there is any…
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Fuzzy string matching using Difflib get_matching_blocks not detecting all substrings

I'm trying to find all occurrences of a word in paragraph and I want it to account for spelling mistakes as well. Code: to_search="caterpillar" search_here= "caterpillar are awesome animal catterpillar who like other humans but not other…
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Faster and more efficient python method for fuzzy matching substrings

I want the program to search for all occurrences of crocodile, etc with fuzzy matching i.e. If there are any spelling mistakes, it should count those words as well. s="Difference between a crocodile and an alligator is......." #Long paragraph,…
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How can I merge these two datasets on 'Name' and 'Year'?

I am new in this field and stuck on this problem. I have two datasets all_batsman_df, this df has 5 columns('years','team','pos','name','salary') years team pos name salary 0 1991 SF 1B Will Clark …
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