Find common substring between two strings
For completeness, difflib in the standard-library provides loads of sequence-comparison utilities. For instance find_longest_match which finds the longest common substring when used on strings. Example use: from difflib import SequenceMatcher string1 = “apple pie available” string2 = “come have some apple pies” match = SequenceMatcher(None, string1, string2).find_longest_match() print(match) # -> Match(a=0, b=15, size=9) print(string1[match.a:match.a + … Read more