Name comparison using fuzzy string matching
I'm somewhat new to python and wrote this piece of code to do a string comparison of accounts that are being requested for import into our data base against accounts that are already present. The issue is that the accounts currently in our DB is over 65K and I'm comparing over 5K accounts for import causing this code to take over 5 hours to run. I suspect this has to do with the loop I'm using but I'm not certain how to improve it.
TLDR; I need help optimizing this code so it has a shorter run time.
from fuzzywuzzy import fuzz
from fuzzywuzzy import process
accounts_DB = pd.read_csv("file.csv") #65,000 rows and 15 columns
accounts_SF = pd.read_csv("Requested Import.csv") #5,000 rows and 30 columns
def NameComparison(DB_account, choices):
"""Function uses fuzzywuzzy module to perform Levenshtein distance string comparison"""
return(process.extractBests(DB_account, choices, score_cutoff= 95))
options = accounts_sf["Account Name"]
a_list =
for i in range(len(accounts_db)):
a_list.append(NameComparison(accounts_db.at[i,"Company Name"], options))
b_list = pd.DataFrame(a_list)
b_list.to_csv("Matched Accounts.csv")
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I'm somewhat new to python and wrote this piece of code to do a string comparison of accounts that are being requested for import into our data base against accounts that are already present. The issue is that the accounts currently in our DB is over 65K and I'm comparing over 5K accounts for import causing this code to take over 5 hours to run. I suspect this has to do with the loop I'm using but I'm not certain how to improve it.
TLDR; I need help optimizing this code so it has a shorter run time.
from fuzzywuzzy import fuzz
from fuzzywuzzy import process
accounts_DB = pd.read_csv("file.csv") #65,000 rows and 15 columns
accounts_SF = pd.read_csv("Requested Import.csv") #5,000 rows and 30 columns
def NameComparison(DB_account, choices):
"""Function uses fuzzywuzzy module to perform Levenshtein distance string comparison"""
return(process.extractBests(DB_account, choices, score_cutoff= 95))
options = accounts_sf["Account Name"]
a_list =
for i in range(len(accounts_db)):
a_list.append(NameComparison(accounts_db.at[i,"Company Name"], options))
b_list = pd.DataFrame(a_list)
b_list.to_csv("Matched Accounts.csv")
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Welcome to Code Review! What task does this code accomplish? Please tell us, and also make that the title of the question via edit. Maybe you missed the placeholder on the title element: "State the task that your code accomplishes. Make your title distinctive.". Also from How to Ask: "State what your code does in your title, not your main concerns about it.".
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I'm somewhat new to python and wrote this piece of code to do a string comparison of accounts that are being requested for import into our data base against accounts that are already present. The issue is that the accounts currently in our DB is over 65K and I'm comparing over 5K accounts for import causing this code to take over 5 hours to run. I suspect this has to do with the loop I'm using but I'm not certain how to improve it.
TLDR; I need help optimizing this code so it has a shorter run time.
from fuzzywuzzy import fuzz
from fuzzywuzzy import process
accounts_DB = pd.read_csv("file.csv") #65,000 rows and 15 columns
accounts_SF = pd.read_csv("Requested Import.csv") #5,000 rows and 30 columns
def NameComparison(DB_account, choices):
"""Function uses fuzzywuzzy module to perform Levenshtein distance string comparison"""
return(process.extractBests(DB_account, choices, score_cutoff= 95))
options = accounts_sf["Account Name"]
a_list =
for i in range(len(accounts_db)):
a_list.append(NameComparison(accounts_db.at[i,"Company Name"], options))
b_list = pd.DataFrame(a_list)
b_list.to_csv("Matched Accounts.csv")
python performance
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I'm somewhat new to python and wrote this piece of code to do a string comparison of accounts that are being requested for import into our data base against accounts that are already present. The issue is that the accounts currently in our DB is over 65K and I'm comparing over 5K accounts for import causing this code to take over 5 hours to run. I suspect this has to do with the loop I'm using but I'm not certain how to improve it.
TLDR; I need help optimizing this code so it has a shorter run time.
from fuzzywuzzy import fuzz
from fuzzywuzzy import process
accounts_DB = pd.read_csv("file.csv") #65,000 rows and 15 columns
accounts_SF = pd.read_csv("Requested Import.csv") #5,000 rows and 30 columns
def NameComparison(DB_account, choices):
"""Function uses fuzzywuzzy module to perform Levenshtein distance string comparison"""
return(process.extractBests(DB_account, choices, score_cutoff= 95))
options = accounts_sf["Account Name"]
a_list =
for i in range(len(accounts_db)):
a_list.append(NameComparison(accounts_db.at[i,"Company Name"], options))
b_list = pd.DataFrame(a_list)
b_list.to_csv("Matched Accounts.csv")
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Welcome to Code Review! What task does this code accomplish? Please tell us, and also make that the title of the question via edit. Maybe you missed the placeholder on the title element: "State the task that your code accomplishes. Make your title distinctive.". Also from How to Ask: "State what your code does in your title, not your main concerns about it.".
– Sᴀᴍ Onᴇᴌᴀ
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Welcome to Code Review! What task does this code accomplish? Please tell us, and also make that the title of the question via edit. Maybe you missed the placeholder on the title element: "State the task that your code accomplishes. Make your title distinctive.". Also from How to Ask: "State what your code does in your title, not your main concerns about it.".
– Sᴀᴍ Onᴇᴌᴀ
14 mins ago
Welcome to Code Review! What task does this code accomplish? Please tell us, and also make that the title of the question via edit. Maybe you missed the placeholder on the title element: "State the task that your code accomplishes. Make your title distinctive.". Also from How to Ask: "State what your code does in your title, not your main concerns about it.".
– Sᴀᴍ Onᴇᴌᴀ
14 mins ago
Welcome to Code Review! What task does this code accomplish? Please tell us, and also make that the title of the question via edit. Maybe you missed the placeholder on the title element: "State the task that your code accomplishes. Make your title distinctive.". Also from How to Ask: "State what your code does in your title, not your main concerns about it.".
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