Quicker way to perform fuzzy string match in pandas
问题 Is there any way to speed up the fuzzy string match using fuzzywuzzy in pandas. I have a dataframe as extra_names which has names that I want to run fuzzy matches for with another dataframe as names_df . >> extra_names.head() not_matching 0 Vij Sales 1 Crom Electronics 2 REL Digital 3 Bajaj Elec 4 Reliance Digi >> len(extra_names) 6500 >> names_df.head() names types 0 Vijay Sales 1 1 Croma Electronics 1 2 Reliance Digital 2 3 Bajaj Electronics 2 4 Pai Electricals 2 >> len(names_df) 250 As of