Installation
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The recommended method to install Levenshtein is by using ``pip`` (the Python package manager)

using pip
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Levenshtein can be installed with ``pip``:

.. code-block:: sh

   pip install levenshtein

There are pre-built binaries (wheels) of Levenshtein for MacOS (10.9 and later), Linux x86_64 and Windows.

from git
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Levenshtein can be directly used from GitHub by cloning the
repository which might be useful when you want to work on it:

.. code-block:: sh

   git clone https://github.com/rapidfuzz/Levenshtein.git
   cd Levenshtein
   pip install .