Find the similarity metric between two strings

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00:00 Question
00:33 Accepted answer (Score 806)
00:51 Answer 2 (Score 102)
02:10 Answer 3 (Score 82)
02:33 Answer 4 (Score 50)
02:59 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1738...

Answer 1 links:
[SequenceMatcher]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/diffli...
[difflib]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/diffli...
[jellyfish]: https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish

Answer 2 links:
[Hamming distance]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_dis...
[Levenshtein distance]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein...
[Damerau–Levenshtein distance]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau%E2%...
[Jaro–Winkler distance]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaro%E2%80%...

Answer 3 links:
[package]: https://github.com/seatgeek/thefuzz

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