import jellyfish TITLE_THRESHOLD_LEVENSHTEIN = 2 def match_titles(title_1: str, title_2: str) -> (bool, int): distance = jellyfish.levenshtein_distance(title_1, title_2) return distance > TITLE_THRESHOLD_LEVENSHTEIN, distance def match_artists(artist_1, artist_2: str) -> (bool, int): if type(artist_1) == list: distances = [] for artist_1_ in artist_1: match, distance = match_titles(artist_1_, artist_2) if not match: return match, distance distances.append(distance) return True, min(distances) return match_titles(artist_1, artist_2)