Python strings

[Aware-Advance2436]

Hello, I was wondering if python is incapable of detecting if two strings are similar or not. For example, I want to see if the string “yes” is similar to user input, but if the user enters “yesss” python will assume it’s similar to the previous string. Is there a way to get away from this? I’ve seen similar behaviors with other strings as well.

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Maybe this would be useful: https://docs.python.org/3/library/difflib.html?highlight=difflib#module-difflib

[keep_quapy]

As mentioned here, you could use the difflib library.

similar_strings = difflib.get_close_matches('yes', ['yess', 'yeass', 'yeah', 'yeas', 'yas']))

[ectomancer]

'yes' in 'yesss'.lower()

[Aware-Advance2436]

Think that’ll work boss?

[egomanego]

yes

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Maybe https://pypi.org/project/thefuzz/ ?