title: Python function to find similarity between differently formatted strings
body: <p>I have 2 excel files with names of items. I want to compare the items but the only remotely similar column is the name column which too has different formatting of the names like</p>
  
  <p><strong>KIDS-Piano</strong> as <em>kids piano</em></p>
  
  <p><strong>Butter Gel 100mg</strong> as <em>Butter-Gel-100MG</em></p>
  
  <p>I know it can't be 100% accurate so I would instead ask the human operating the code to make the final verification but how do I show the closest matching names?</p>