https://github.com/dracos/double-metaphone

A Python implementation of the Double Metaphone algorithm
https://github.com/dracos/double-metaphone

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A Python implementation of the Double Metaphone algorithm

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dracos/double-metaphone
• Owner: dracos
• Created: 2009-11-23T22:42:26.000Z (almost 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2010-11-03T09:48:32.000Z (about 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-18T19:55:25.867Z (26 days ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 90.8 KB
• Stars: 61
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 31
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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This is a copy of the Python Double Metaphone algorithm, taken from

http://atomboy.isa-geek.com/plone/Members/acoil/programing/double-metaphone/metaphone.py

and algorithm originally by Lawrence Philips, with some bug fixes to the

core algorithm, and other minor improvements.

I use it on Theatricalia to do people name matching, and it appears to work

quite well, e.g. http://theatricalia.com/search?q=chuck+iwugee

The database stores the double metaphones for first and last names, and then

upon searching simply computes the double metaphones of what has been entered

and looks up anything that matches.