Compare List Similarity Python

Question

S = ['hom']
L = ['home','honda','Hammer','Elephant']

I want to get output to show similarity

hom = home 

and

print home

How I can do this? I want to use approximate matching to change "hom" to "home".

Answer 1

For something built-in, you have difflib.

It can (as said in the docs): Return a list of the best “good enough” matches. word is a sequence for which close matches are desired (typically a string), and possibilities is a list of sequences against which to match word (typically a list of strings).

The example in the docs is:

>>> from difflib import get_close_matches
>>> get_close_matches('appel', ['ape', 'apple', 'peach', 'puppy'])
['apple', 'ape']