import re import shutil import tempfile from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor from os import cpu_count from pathlib import Path import polars as pl from thefuzz import fuzz from tqdm import tqdm _NUMBER_RE = re.compile(r"\d+") def _normalize(s: pl.Expr) -> pl.Expr: return ( s.str.to_uppercase() .str.replace_all(r"[,.\-]", " ") .str.replace_all(r"\s+", " ") .str.strip_chars() ) def fuzzy_join_on_postcode( left: pl.LazyFrame, right: pl.LazyFrame, left_address_col: str, right_address_col: str, left_postcode_col: str, right_postcode_col: str, ) -> pl.LazyFrame: """Fuzzy join two LazyFrames by matching addresses within postcode buckets. Sinks each side to a temporary parquet file so the upstream pipeline executes only once. The matching phase collects just three narrow columns (index, address, postcode) via projection pushdown, and the final join reads the remaining columns lazily. Returns a LazyFrame with all left and right columns. Unmatched rows have null right columns. """ tmpdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="fuzzy_join_") left_path = Path(tmpdir) / "left.parquet" right_path = Path(tmpdir) / "right.parquet" try: # Materialise each side exactly once, with a row index, to temp parquet. left.with_row_index("_left_idx").sink_parquet(left_path) right.with_row_index("_right_idx").sink_parquet(right_path) # Collect only the narrow columns needed for matching (projection pushdown). left_match = ( pl.scan_parquet(left_path) .select( "_left_idx", _normalize(pl.col(left_address_col)).alias("_left_address"), pl.col(left_postcode_col) .str.strip_chars() .str.to_uppercase() .alias("_left_postcode"), ) .collect(engine="streaming") ) right_match = ( pl.scan_parquet(right_path) .select( "_right_idx", _normalize(pl.col(right_address_col)).alias("_right_address"), pl.col(right_postcode_col) .str.strip_chars() .str.to_uppercase() .alias("_right_postcode"), ) .unique(subset=["_right_address", "_right_postcode"], keep="first") .collect(engine="streaming") ) # Group right side by postcode for fast lookup right_by_postcode: dict[str, list[tuple[int, str]]] = {} for idx, postcode, address in zip( right_match["_right_idx"], right_match["_right_postcode"], right_match["_right_address"], ): if address is not None and postcode is not None: right_by_postcode.setdefault(postcode, []).append((idx, address)) # Group left side by postcode left_by_postcode: dict[str, list[tuple[int, str]]] = {} for idx, postcode, address in zip( left_match["_left_idx"], left_match["_left_postcode"], left_match["_left_address"], ): if address is not None and postcode is not None: left_by_postcode.setdefault(postcode, []).append((idx, address)) del left_match, right_match # Build tasks for each postcode bucket tasks = [ (left_entries, right_by_postcode[postcode]) for postcode, left_entries in left_by_postcode.items() if postcode in right_by_postcode ] # Score all pairwise matches in parallel, then greedily assign from # highest score downward so best pairs lock in first. all_pairs: list[tuple[int, int, int]] = [] # (score, left_idx, right_idx) with ProcessPoolExecutor(max_workers=cpu_count()) as executor: for pairs in tqdm( executor.map(_score_bucket, tasks, chunksize=64), total=len(tasks), desc="Fuzzy matching", ): all_pairs.extend(pairs) del tasks, left_by_postcode, right_by_postcode # Sort descending by score so best matches are assigned first all_pairs.sort(key=lambda t: (t[0], -t[1]), reverse=True) matches: list[tuple[int, int]] = [] matched_left: set[int] = set() matched_right: set[int] = set() for _score, left_idx, right_idx in all_pairs: if left_idx in matched_left or right_idx in matched_right: continue matches.append((left_idx, right_idx)) matched_left.add(left_idx) matched_right.add(right_idx) del all_pairs, matched_left, matched_right # Build a small mapping LazyFrame and join back to the cached parquets. if matches: mapping = pl.LazyFrame( { "_left_idx": pl.Series([m[0] for m in matches], dtype=pl.UInt32), "_right_idx": pl.Series([m[1] for m in matches], dtype=pl.UInt32), } ) else: mapping = pl.LazyFrame( { "_left_idx": pl.Series([], dtype=pl.UInt32), "_right_idx": pl.Series([], dtype=pl.UInt32), } ) left_cached = pl.scan_parquet(left_path) right_cached = pl.scan_parquet(right_path) result = ( left_cached.join(mapping, on="_left_idx", how="left") .join(right_cached, on="_right_idx", how="left") .drop("_left_idx", "_right_idx") .collect(engine="streaming") ) finally: shutil.rmtree(tmpdir, ignore_errors=True) return result.lazy() def _numbers_compatible(a: str, b: str) -> bool: """Check that numeric tokens (flat/house numbers) in the shorter set are a subset of the longer. Returns False if one address has numbers and the other doesn't. """ nums_a = set(_NUMBER_RE.findall(a)) nums_b = set(_NUMBER_RE.findall(b)) smaller, larger = ( (nums_a, nums_b) if len(nums_a) <= len(nums_b) else (nums_b, nums_a) ) if not smaller and larger: return False return smaller.issubset(larger) def _score_bucket( args: tuple[list[tuple[int, str]], list[tuple[int, str]]], ) -> list[tuple[int, int, int]]: """Score all address pairs within a single postcode bucket.""" left_entries, right_entries = args pairs = [] for left_row, left_address in left_entries: for right_row, right_address in right_entries: if not _numbers_compatible(left_address, right_address): continue score = fuzz.token_sort_ratio(left_address, right_address) pairs.append((score, left_row, right_row)) return pairs