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 # go-fuzzywuzzy
+Please note: This repository is not actively maintained. I no longer use Go in my daily work, and will be slow to make updates. SeatGeek's library has evolved quite a bit since this port was written, so you may find that some behavior is absent from this library.
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 This is a port of SeatGeek's [fuzzywuzzy](https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy), a fuzzy string matching library. 
 ## Usage 
 ### Levenshtein Edit Distance