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Questions - difflib

Using difflib to compare a string with a row in a dataframe

I have a string email = 'joe@gmail.com' and a DF df = DataFrame({ ‘id’: [1, 2, 3], 'email_address': [‘steve@gmail.com’, ‘joe@hotmail.com’, ‘bill@hotmail.com’ ]}) I want to add a column named 'score...
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RiotF

pandas

difflib

sequencematcher

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You could use pandas.DataFrame.apply: In [1]: import pandas as pd ...: from difflib import SequenceMatcher In [2]: df = pd.DataFrame({'id': [1, 2, 3], 'email_address': ['steve@gmail.com', 'joe@hotm...
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Sash Sinha

Python - compare two string by words using difflib and print only difference

Python newbie here. I have the following code to compare two strings using difflab library. The output is prefixed with '+','-' for words which are different. How to get only the differences printed w...
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Bat Stock

python

output

difference

difflib

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If you don't have to use difflib, you could use a set and string splitting! >>> original = "Apple Microsoft Google Oracle" >>> edited = "Apple Nvdia IBM" >>...
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ti7

Getting rid of duplicates in text strings in new column by identifying differences in original data and using this difference in new column

I have sort of more general question on the process on working with text data. My goal is to create UNIQUE short labels/description on products from existing long descriptions based on specific rules....
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HeadOverFeet

python

text

replace

difflib

text-manipulation

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A relational database would be a good fit for this problem, with appropriate UNIQUE indexes configured. But let's assume you're going to solve it in memory, rather than on disk. Assume that get_longs(...
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