Fuzzy matching for instances

[Peyman-N]

We need to add fuzzy matching to intansess: The difflib library may be a good solution.
from difflib import get_close_matches

[apdavison]

Please can you explain the use case in more detail?

[Peyman-N]

Sorry, this came up on 21 October in the OpenMINDS dev meeting. @lzehl suggested we would need a search method in the instances that can find an instance in the library based on a partial match. But this is a tricky situation, so we should be careful. When implementing this, we need to be able to turn off the feature when we only want to find exact matches.
When I examine the library deeper, I think maybe we need a more sophisticated way of doing that get_close_matches.

[apdavison]

@lzehl what was the specific use case you had in mind?

Fuzzy matching of individual properties is straightforward; matching across multiple properties, as would be needed for fuzzy matching of entire instances, is much more difficult to define.