# The textproc/py-jellyfish port

## py3-jellyfish-1.2.1 – Python library for approximate and phonetic string matching

## Description

    Jellyfish is a python library for doing approximate and phonetic
    matching of strings.

    String comparison:

    Levenshtein Distance
    Damerau-Levenshtein Distance
    Jaro Distance
    Jaro-Winkler Distance
    Match Rating Approach Comparison
    Hamming Distance

    Phonetic encoding:

    American Soundex
    Metaphone
    NYSIIS (New York State Identification and Intelligence System)
    Match Rating Codex

WWW: https://jamesturk.github.io/jellyfish/

Only for arches
  aarch64 amd64 riscv64 sparc64
Categories:
  lang/python lang/rust textproc

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- STEM->=15,<16:lang/gcc/15
- devel/cargo-generate-vendor
- devel/maturin
- devel/py-build
- devel/py-installer
- lang/python/3
- lang/rust

## Run dependencies

- lang/python/3