Python: find closest string (from a list) to another string

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Use difflib.get_close_matches.

>>> words = ['hello', 'Hallo', 'hi', 'house', 'key', 'screen', 'hallo', 'question', 'format']
>>> difflib.get_close_matches('Hello', words)
['hello', 'Hallo', 'hallo']

Please look at the documentation, because the function returns 3 or less closest matches by default.

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