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Years (decades) ago, I read about soundex, and found this little language that came with a soundex module. That was my introduction to Python, which I've used f
by kbutler 8y ago
Years (decades) ago, I read about soundex, and found this little language that came with a soundex module. That was my introduction to Python, which I've used for my master's thesis and in personal and professional development.
But Python has since removed the soundex module.
- Abishek_Muthian 8y agoHi, interesting; do you know why?
- kbutler 8y agoFound it - it was a C module, and was available until 2.1, when many little used modules were removed. 1.6.1 declared it "obsolete": https://www.python.org/download/releases/1.6.1/ https://www.python.org/download/releases/1.6.1/ Obsolete Modules ... soundex. (Skip Montanaro has a version in Python but it won't be included in the Python release.) Looks like it was finally removed in 2.1: https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.1.3/notes/ https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.1.3/notes/ matches the NEWS file in https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.1/ https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.1/ - Removed the obsolete soundex module. https://pypi.org/project/Fuzzy/ https://pypi.org/project/Fuzzy/ has a modern implementation if you want to play with it.
- Abishek_Muthian 8y agoHey, much appreciated! thanks for the Fuzzy mention as well :)