# fix-header: skip

# http://hetland.org/coding/python/levenshtein.py

# This is a straightforward implementation of a well-known algorithm, and thus
# probably shouldn't be covered by copyright to begin with. But in case it is,
# the author (Magnus Lie Hetland) has, to the extent possible under law,
# dedicated all copyright and related and neighboring rights to this software
# to the public domain worldwide, by distributing it under the CC0 license,
# version 1.0. This software is distributed without any warranty. For more
# information, see <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0>


def astrcmp_py(a, b):
    """Calculates the Levenshtein distance between a and b."""
    n, m = len(a), len(b)
    if n > m:
        # Make sure n <= m, to use O(min(n,m)) space
        a, b = b, a
        n, m = m, n

    if n == 0 or m == 0.0:
        return 0.0

    current = range(n+1)
    for i in range(1, m+1):
        previous, current = current, [i]+[0]*n
        for j in range(1, n+1):
            add, delete = previous[j]+1, current[j-1]+1
            change = previous[j-1]
            if a[j-1] != b[i-1]:
                change = change + 1
            current[j] = min(add, delete, change)

    return 1.0 - current[n] / max(m, n)


try:
    from picard.util._astrcmp import astrcmp as astrcmp_c
    astrcmp = astrcmp_c
    astrcmp_implementation = "C"
except ImportError:
    astrcmp = astrcmp_py
    astrcmp_implementation = "Python"
