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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2004-06-13 09:57:33 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2004-06-13 09:57:33 (GMT)
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Apply heapq.nlargest() to find best matches.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/difflib.py b/Lib/difflib.py
index c074b19..85a1c9c 100644
--- a/Lib/difflib.py
+++ b/Lib/difflib.py
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ __all__ = ['get_close_matches', 'ndiff', 'restore', 'SequenceMatcher',
'Differ','IS_CHARACTER_JUNK', 'IS_LINE_JUNK', 'context_diff',
'unified_diff']
+import heapq
+
def _calculate_ratio(matches, length):
if length:
return 2.0 * matches / length
@@ -703,9 +705,9 @@ def get_close_matches(word, possibilities, n=3, cutoff=0.6):
result.append((s.ratio(), x))
# Move the best scorers to head of list
- result.sort(reverse=True)
+ result = heapq.nlargest(result, n)
# Strip scores for the best n matches
- return [x for score, x in result[:n]]
+ return [x for score, x in result]
def _count_leading(line, ch):
"""