{"library":"pyxdameraulevenshtein","title":"pyxDamerauLevenshtein","description":"High-performance Damerau-Levenshtein edit distance computation for Python, implemented in Cython. Currently at version 1.10.1, with wheels for CPython 3.9–3.14 on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Releases are stable and infrequent.","language":"python","status":"active","last_verified":"Mon Apr 27","install":{"commands":["pip install pyxdameraulevenshtein"],"cli":null},"imports":["from pyxdameraulevenshtein import damerau_levenshtein_distance","from pyxdameraulevenshtein import normalized_damerau_levenshtein_distance"],"auth":{"required":false,"env_vars":[]},"quickstart":{"code":"from pyxdameraulevenshtein import damerau_levenshtein_distance\n\nstring1 = 'hello'\nstring2 = 'hola'\ndist = damerau_levenshtein_distance(string1, string2)\nprint(f\"DL distance: {dist}\")\n\n# Normalized distance (0.0 to 1.0)\nfrom pyxdameraulevenshtein import normalized_damerau_levenshtein_distance\nnorm_dist = normalized_damerau_levenshtein_distance(string1, string2)\nprint(f\"Normalized DL distance: {norm_dist:.4f}\")","lang":"python","description":"Compute Damerau-Levenshtein distance between two strings. Works for any hashable sequences (e.g., lists of tokens).","tag":null,"tag_description":null,"last_tested":null,"results":[]},"compatibility":null}