The Levenshtein Python C extension module contains functions for fast computation of:

• Levenshtein (edit) distance, and edit operations
• string similarity
• approximate median strings, and generally string averaging
• string sequence and set similarity

⚠️ The package was renamed to Levenshtein and can be found here. The python-Levenshtein package will continue to be updated alongside the new package

• Python 3.8 or later

pip install levenshtein

The documentation for the current version can be found at https://rapidfuzz.github.io/Levenshtein/

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Levenshtein is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

See the file COPYING for the full text of GNU General Public License version 2.