Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe

From	Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
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Subject	Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe
Date	2011-05-04 18:15 -0700
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On May 4, 5:26 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
> The test would be more convincing to many with 100000 other geographic
> names (hard to come by, I know), or other english names or words or even
> with longer random strings that matched the lengths of the state names.
> But an average of 5/100000 false positives in 5 runs is good.

I've just posted an update with a spell checker using a large
dictionary.  That should make it easy to validate against some real
world text samples.


Raymond

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Today's fun and educational Python recipe Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-05-04 11:17 -0700
  Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Irmen de Jong <irmen@-NOSPAM-xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-04 21:02 +0200
    Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-05-04 12:13 -0700
      Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Irmen de Jong <irmen@-NOSPAM-xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-04 21:35 +0200
    Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-04 19:17 +0000
      Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-05 09:33 +1000
    Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 12:22 +1000
  Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-04 12:27 -0700
    Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-05-04 14:53 -0700
  Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-04 15:42 -0400
    Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-05-04 14:39 -0700
      Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-04 20:26 -0400
        Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-05-04 18:15 -0700
  Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe nn <pruebauno@latinmail.com> - 2011-05-05 07:33 -0700

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