fuzzywuzzy search string in text file

[deanhystad]

Not a lot of documentation online but you can go to the project page and look at the source.

def extractOne(query, choices, processor=default_processor, scorer=default_scorer, score_cutoff=0):
"""Find the single best match above a score in a list of choices.
This is a convenience method which returns the single best choice.
See extract() for the full arguments list.
Args:
query: A string to match against
choices: A list or dictionary of choices, suitable for use with
extract().
processor: Optional function for transforming choices before matching.
See extract().
scorer: Scoring function for extract().
score_cutoff: Optional argument for score threshold. If the best
match is found, but it is not greater than this number, then
return None anyway ("not a good enough match"). Defaults to 0.
Returns:
A tuple containing a single match and its score, if a match
was found that was above score_cutoff. Otherwise, returns None.
"""
best_list = extractWithoutOrder(query, choices, processor, scorer, score_cutoff)
try:
return max(best_list, key=lambda i: i[1])
except ValueError:
return None

According to this, "query" (the word you are looking for) is a string. If you want to look for one of many words I think you need to repeat the extractOne() call once for each query word. You'll have to come up with a "matching calculus" to decide which is the best fit. I'd start with computing the average match score of the query words.