^_^

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
def distanceLev(a, b,             \
                add_cost=1,       \
                del_cost=0.5,     \
                change_cost=0.5,  \
                change_modif=1.0, \
                partial_koeff=0.7,\
                extra_koeff=0.5,  \
                k_error = 1):     #error triger koeff
    """Calculates the Levenshtein distance between a and b.
    Stops working if current error is bigger then add_cost*len(a)*k_error
    costs must be lesser then 1"""

    if add_cost>1 or del_cost>1 or change_cost>1:
        raise ValueError, \
            'add_cost, del_cost, change_cost+change_miduf must be lesser then 0'

    n, m = len(a), len(b)
    maximum = n * add_cost * k_error

    koeff = 100./(n*add_cost)
    full = 0

    if n == 0:
        res = m * del_cost
    elif m == 0:
        res = n * add_cost
    elif a in b:
        res = (m-n) * del_cost * extra_koeff
    elif b in a:
        res = (n-m) * add_cost * partial_koeff

    if n > m:
        # Make sure n <= m, to use O(min(n,m)) space
        a, b = b, a
        n, m = m, n
        add_cost, del_cost = del_cost, add_cost

    if m==0 and n==0:
        res = 0;
    elif m == 0 or n == 0 or (a in b) or (b in a):
            pass

    else:
        current_row = range(n+1) # Keep current and previous row, not entire matrix
        for i in xrange(1, m+1):
            if full: break
            previous_row = current_row
            current_row = [i]+[0]*m
            for j in xrange(1,n+1):
                add = previous_row[j] + add_cost
                delete = current_row[j-1] + del_cost
                change = previous_row[j-1]
                if a[j-1] != b[i-1]:
                    x,y = a[j-1],b[i-1]
                    change += comparer(x,y,normer)*change_modif + change_cost

                current_row[j] = min(add, delete, change)
                if (current_row[i] >= maximum):
                    full = 1
                    current_row[n] = current_row[i]
                    break

        res = current_row[n]

    return koeff * res

def comparer(a,b,diff=1,mod=1,relative=1,normer=1):
    """Returns difference of 'a' and 'b'
    if (diff=0) or 'a' and 'b' are not numeric just checks if they are equal
    'mod=1' causes function to return abs() of result"""
    normer += 1
    try:
        if type(a) == type(b) == type('str'):
            a,b = ord(a),ord(b)
        res = (a-b)
        k = a
    except:
        res = (a==b)
        k = 1

    if mod:
        try: res = abs(res)
        except: print a,b,'are not numberic'
    if not diff:
        res = (a==b)
    if relative:
        res = 1.*res/k
    return (res)


s = '123456'
print s
print 'Changes\t\t\t Errorness'
print 'not changed\t\t %.2f' % distanceLev(s,'123456')

for i in xrange(len(s)):
    print 'Not all symbols(-' +str(i+1) + ')\t %.2f' % distanceLev(s,s[0:-i-1])

print 'changed +2\t\t %.2f' % distanceLev(s,'123656')
print 'changed +4\t\t %.2f' %  distanceLev(s,'123856')
print 'changed +5\t\t %.2f' %  distanceLev(s,'123956')
print 'changed +1,+1\t\t %.2f' %  distanceLev(s,'124556')

print '+2 symbols inside\t %.2f' % distanceLev(s,'12344556')
print '+3 symbols inside\t %.2f' % distanceLev(s,'123445556')

print '+2 symbols outside\t %.2f' % distanceLev(s,'123456dj')
print '+3 symbols outside\t %.2f' % distanceLev(s,'123456djb')
print 'doubles\t\t\t %.2f' % distanceLev(s,'112233445566')
print 'triples\t\t\t %.2f' % distanceLev(s,'111222333444555666')