This is more or less the path we take for event matching at SeatGeek[1] using our fuzzywuzzy[2] library. There are places where this falls flat since it's kind

This is more or less the path we take for event matching at SeatGeek[1] using our fuzzywuzzy[2] library. There are places where this falls flat since it's kind of naive, though at that point you can stop thinking about adjacent characters and start thinking about adjacent words. [1] http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/fuzzywuzzy-fuzzy-string-matching-in-python/ http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/fuzzywuzzy-fuzzy-string-matchi... [2] https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy