On May 6, 2010, at 10:48 AM, INADA Naoki wrote:

Hi, all.

I am one of  translator of Python document.
But I am not good at English well.

I can't understand one sentence in:
http://docs.python.org/library/difflib.html#difflib.SequenceMatcher.quick_ratio

This isn’t defined beyond that it is an upper bound on ratio(), and is faster to compute.

I see that quick_ratio() calculates upper bound of ratio().
But I can't get what "this isn't defined beyond that" means.
May someone explain this in easy sentence for me?

I think it means that the implementation of quick_ratio() is not defined in a lot of detail, except to say that the function will return a value that is an upper bound of the value returned by ratio(). So the value returned by ratio() will always be less than or equal to the value returned by quick_ratio(), and quick_ratio() is faster than ratio(). real_quick_ratio() has a similar relationship to quick_ratio().

Doug

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