Wired behavior of partial_ratio about fuzzywuzzy HOT 1 OPEN

This is a known issue in python-Levenshtein: #79
In your case for the comparision of

"prod" <-> "random"

the following alignment is used:

"prod" <-> "ndom"

which has a similarity of 25.
However the optimal alignment would be:

"prod" <-> "rand"

which has a similarity of 50.
In FuzzyWuzzy you will get the correct result when the slower difflib based implementation is used:

>>> from fuzzywuzzy import fuzz
>>> from difflib import SequenceMatcher
>>> fuzz.SequenceMatcher = SequenceMatcher
>>> fuzzywuzzy.fuzz.partial_ratio("prod", "random") 
50

from fuzzywuzzy.