Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Thu Jul 4 13:31:12 EDT 2002

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[Rajarshi Guha]
>   does anybody knwo how I can check a sequence for 'identical ness', ie
> given a sequence:
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> [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]
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> it would be classified as 100% identical

100% identical to what?  Itself?  That's easy <wink>.

> and
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> [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2]
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> would be classified as 90% identical.

>>> import difflib
>>> m = difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, [1]*10, [1]*9 + [2])
>>> print m.ratio()
0.9
>>>

Read the difflib docs for more.

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