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py-edit-distance Computing edit distance on arbitrary Python sequences
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Maintainer: yuri@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-07-09 16:36:12
Last Update: 2026-07-09 16:35:37
Commit Hash: 8f518d5
Also Listed In: python
License: APACHE20
WWW:
https://github.com/belambert/edit-distance
Description:
Edit Distance computes edit distance (Levenshtein distance) on arbitrary Python sequences. It provides efficient implementations of sequence comparison algorithms, supporting custom cost functions and operations for measuring similarity between sequences.
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Dependency lines:
  • ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}edit-distance>0:math/py-edit-distance@${PY_FLAVOR}
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/math/py-edit-distance/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install math/py-edit-distance
  • pkg install py312-edit-distance
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
NOTE: This is a Python port. Instead of py312-edit-distance listed in the above command, you can pick from the names under the Packages section.
PKGNAME: py312-edit-distance
Package flavors (<flavor>: <package>)
  • py312: py312-edit-distance
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1783090783 SHA256 (edit_distance-1.0.9.tar.gz) = 074c29ec00c8e74ff2627759cf3d40aa2d95cd24a0cde4acc62c820df9f3af26 SIZE (edit_distance-1.0.9.tar.gz) = 10041

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. py312-poetry-core>0 : devel/py-poetry-core@py312
  2. python3.12 : lang/python312
  3. py312-build>=0 : devel/py-build@py312
  4. py312-installer>=0 : devel/py-installer@py312
Test dependencies:
  1. python3.12 : lang/python312
Runtime dependencies:
  1. python3.12 : lang/python312
This port is required by:
for Run
  1. textproc/py-docling-eval

Configuration Options:
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Options name:
math_py-edit-distance
USES:
python
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1.0.9
09 Jul 2026 16:35:37
commit hash: 8f518d5f9273959354aae5aeaedbfab3bc6cbfefcommit hash: 8f518d5f9273959354aae5aeaedbfab3bc6cbfefcommit hash: 8f518d5f9273959354aae5aeaedbfab3bc6cbfefcommit hash: 8f518d5f9273959354aae5aeaedbfab3bc6cbfef files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
math/py-edit-distance: New port: Computing edit distance on arbitrary Python
sequences

Number of commits found: 1