Fuzzy Finder implemented in Python. Matches partial string entries from a list of strings. Works similar to fuzzy finder in SublimeText and Vim's Ctrl-P plugin.

• Documentation: https://fuzzyfinder.readthedocs.org.
• Source: https://github.com/amjith/fuzzyfinder

$ pip install fuzzyfinder

or

$ easy_install fuzzyfinder

>>> from fuzzyfinder import fuzzyfinder

>>> suggestions = fuzzyfinder('abc', ['abcd', 'defabca', 'aagbec', 'xyz', 'qux'])

>>> list(suggestions)
['abcd', 'defabca', 'aagbec']

• Simple, easy to understand code.
• No external dependencies, just the python std lib.

Blog post describing the algorithm: http://blog.amjith.com/fuzzyfinder-in-10-lines-of-python

• https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy - Fuzzy matching and auto-correction using levenshtein distance.