Jellyfish is a python library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings. Included Algorithms: - String comparison: * Levenshtein Distance * Damerau-Levenshtein Distance * Jaro Distance * Jaro-Winkler Distance * Match Rating Approach Comparison * Hamming Distance - Phonetic encoding: * American Soundex * Metaphone * NYSIIS (New York State Identification and Intelligence System) * Match Rating Codex