[Python-Dev] Why is soundex marked obsolete?

2001年1月14日 14:33:29 +0100

[Lots of talk about interesting algorithms for "human" pattern matching]
I just want to add my 2 cents to the discussion:
* Eric's package seems very useful for pattern matching, but that
 is a very specific domain -- not main stream
* I would opt to create a neat distutils style package for it
 for people to install at their own liking (I would certainly
 like it :)
* If wrapped up as a separate package, I'd suggest to add all
 known algorithms to the package and also make it Unicode
 aware. There are similar package for e.g. RNGs on Parnassus.
BTW, are there less English centric "sounds alike" matchers
around ? The NIST soundex algorithm as published on the internet:
 http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Reference/soundex.html
works fine for English texts, but other languages of course
have different letter coding requirements (or even different
alphabets).
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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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