After using this, metaphone and other interesting similarity metrics for data cleaning in OpenRefine, I was looking for a python library that had these sorts of

After using this, metaphone and other interesting similarity metrics for data cleaning in OpenRefine, I was looking for a python library that had these sorts of similarity metrics. I found this quite interesting (and comprehensive) project that includes regular string distance (fuzzy search) methods, fingerprinting methods and a huge number of phonetic metrics including 7 different soundex methods: https://github.com/chrislit/abydos https://github.com/chrislit/abydos A few others worth mentioning: Scala: https://github.com/rockymadden/stringmetric https://github.com/rockymadden/stringmetric Java/Scala: https://github.com/vickumar1981/stringdistance https://github.com/vickumar1981/stringdistance Postgres: https://github.com/eulerto/pg_similarity https://github.com/eulerto/pg_similarity R: https://github.com/markvanderloo/stringdist https://github.com/markvanderloo/stringdist Clojure: https://github.com/Yomguithereal/clj-fuzzy https://github.com/Yomguithereal/clj-fuzzy