seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy — pull request #5 by medecau (2011-11-04 19:55:44+00:00)
Title: Speed improvements

Made a few changes to **utils.remove_punctuation()** and **utils.validate_string()** and made them slightly faster.

**remove_punctuation()** is now one third faster
**validate_string()** is locked down at an apparently steady speed.

Also added a few benchmarks to benchmarks.py so you can confirm the improvements.