fuzzywuzzy search string in text file

[deanhystad]

extract is going to return a list of matches ordered by score. If line contains only 1 string, process will return that string along with the score. You can see this with a small mod to your script.

from fuzzywuzzy import fuzz, process
import os
for file in os.listdir('C:/Users/mydirectory'):
    with open('C:/Users/mydirectory/'+file) as f:
        for num,line in enumerate(f):
            print(process.extract("john", line))
    f.close()

I think ratio is a better choice for what you are doing. Or if you want the best match, use process with a list of all the files in the folder. And then use the weight to determine if the best match is good enough.