How about ___
Howabout is a Python library to suggest similar strings. Use it in a command-line project or anywhere where simple misspellings occur.
from howabout import best_match
choices = ['sat', 'sot']
# returns 'sat', since
# 'sat' -> 'sate'
# 'sot' -> 'sat' -> 'sate'
best_match('sate', choices)
Examples can be found under examples/
.
Argparse
Python's argparse
library is not supported out of the box as it cannot be extended or patched.
Installation
Install with pip:
$ pip install howabout
Testing
Use tox
to run the tests.
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages .python && source .python/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ tox