tfidf-matcher

library0.3.0pypypi✓ verified 81d ago

A small Python package for super-fast TF-IDF based string matching. Version 0.3.0 is the latest stable release. The package is in active development, though commits are infrequent.

pip install tfidf-matcher

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tfidf-matcher

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matcher

✓ from tfidf_matcher import matcher

✗ from tfidf_matcher import TFIDFMatcher

Initialize TFIDFMatcher, fit on a list of strings, then match new strings to the closest fit.

from tfidf_matcher import TFIDFMatcher # Example data recipes = ['Spaghetti Bolognese', 'Chicken Tikka Masala', 'Beef Stew'] menu_items = ['Spaghetti Bolognese', 'Chicken Tikka', 'Beef Stew with Dumplings'] # Initialize and fit matcher = TFIDFMatcher() matcher.fit(recipes) # Match matches = matcher.transform(menu_items) print(matches)

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Known issues

gotchaThe package name on PyPI is `tfidf-matcher` (with a hyphen), but the Python module is `tfidf_matcher` (with an underscore). This mismatch often causes ImportError if users try to import the hyphenated name.

fix

Always `pip install tfidf-matcher` and import as `from tfidf_matcher import TFIDFMatcher`.

affects: all

gotchaThe fit() method expects a list of strings (corpus). Passing a single string will not raise an error immediately but leads to character-level matching, which gives incorrect results.

fix

Always pass a list, even for a single document: `matcher.fit(['single string'])`.

affects: all

deprecatedThe package explicitly supports Python 3.5+ but may not be tested on Python 3.12+. The underlying scikit-learn dependency may have compatibility issues.

fix

Use virtual environment with Python 3.8-3.11 for best compatibility.

affects: >=0.3.0

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Version history

0.3.0latest on PyPI · released Apr 6, 2023

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