Source code for abydos.distance._distance

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

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"""abydos.distance._distance.

The distance._distance module implements abstract class _Distance.
"""

from __future__ import (
    absolute_import,
    division,
    print_function,
    unicode_literals,
)

__all__ = ['_Distance']


[docs]class _Distance(object): """Abstract Distance class. .. versionadded:: 0.3.6 """ def __init__(self, **kwargs): """Initialize _Distance instance. Parameters ---------- **kwargs Arbitrary keyword arguments .. versionadded:: 0.4.0 """ self.params = {} self.set_params(**kwargs)
[docs] def set_params(self, **kwargs): """Store params in the params dict. Parameters ---------- **kwargs Arbitrary keyword arguments .. versionadded:: 0.4.0 """ for key in kwargs: self.params[key] = kwargs[key]
[docs] def sim(self, src, tar): """Return similarity. Parameters ---------- src : str Source string for comparison tar : str Target string for comparison Returns ------- float Similarity .. versionadded:: 0.3.6 """ return 1.0 - self.dist(src, tar)
[docs] def dist(self, src, tar): """Return distance. Parameters ---------- src : str Source string for comparison tar : str Target string for comparison Returns ------- float Distance .. versionadded:: 0.3.6 """ return 1.0 - self.sim(src, tar)
[docs] def dist_abs(self, src, tar): """Return absolute distance. Parameters ---------- src : str Source string for comparison tar : str Target string for comparison Returns ------- int Absolute distance .. versionadded:: 0.3.6 """ return self.dist(src, tar)
if __name__ == '__main__': import doctest doctest.testmod()