get_matching_blocks() fails on python3

[ojomio]

Hello. I actually use a fuzzywuzzy package which relies on your repo, but suddenly I discovered that, when run on python3, tests for fuzzywuzzy produce output like that

ERROR: testWRatioUnicodeString (__main__.RatioTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test_fuzzywuzzy.py", line 199, in testWRatioUnicodeString
    score = fuzz.WRatio(s1, s2, force_ascii=False)
  File "/home/crystal/github/fuzzywuzzy/fuzzywuzzy/fuzz.py", line 255, in WRatio
    partial = partial_ratio(p1, p2) * partial_scale
  File "/home/crystal/github/fuzzywuzzy/fuzzywuzzy/fuzz.py", line 77, in partial_ratio
    blocks = m.get_matching_blocks()
  File "/home/crystal/github/fuzzywuzzy/fuzzywuzzy/StringMatcher.py", line 57, in get_matching_blocks
    self._str1, self._str2)
TypeError: inverse expected a list of edit operations

StringMatcher.py is the same file as in your repo and it seems that there is some problem in get_matching_blocks() function, and only on python3. I haven't written extensions, so I tried to understand the root - but failed :(

Could you suggest the solutionfor this?

[ztane]

Thanks, will see this soon

[ztane]

Hmm, indeed the patch given is not as right as it seems.

[ztane]

I am inclined to decide that the right thing to do is always only support str(), that is the 8-bit bytestrings on python 2 and unicode strings on python 3, for editops.

[ztane]

Fixed in the head and python-Levenshtein 0.12