For a program I need to put values of a file in a list.
What happens is that there are words like Real-Madrid , real madrid, madrid, etc ... that since they are all the same should appear only once, but when comparing it in python, a == b , gives me that they are different because they are written differently.
I do not know if you know in any way so I can detect that they should be the same.
You could search for the word within the string, for example:
words = ["Real Madrid", "Real-Madrid", "madrid", "Other Word"]
selectedWord = "madrid"
for word in words:
result = word.lower().find(selectedWord)
print result
you would get this result:
5
5
0
-1
Compare each element in the list with the chosen word and return the position, in case it is not in the String it returns -1, to avoid uppercase and lowercase the lower () is used.
There is an internal Python function for that: difflib .
from difflib import SequenceMatcher
def similar(a, b):
return SequenceMatcher(None, a, b).ratio()
similar("Real Madrid", "Real-Madrid")
0.9090909090909091
similar("Real Madrid", "RealMadrid")
0.9523809523809523
similar("Real Madrid", "Madrid")
0.7058823529411765
similar("Real Madrid", "Salamanca")
0.3