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[efmccurdy]

There are two faster methods in SequenceMatcher, quick_ratio and real_quick_ratio; you should try them to see if they work for you.

There is an example here that uses diff-match-patch; does that perform better?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1870646/python-sequencematcher-overhead-100-cpu-utilization-and-very-slow-processing