perfect-postcode/pipeline/utils/fuzzy_join.py
2026-06-02 13:46:18 +01:00

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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
from pipeline.local_temp import local_tmp_dir
_NUMBER_RE = re.compile(r"\d+")
_POSTCODE_RE = r"^[A-Z]{1,2}\d[A-Z\d]?\d[A-Z]{2}$"
# A house number is a strong disambiguator, so a numbered, number-compatible
# pair may match on a lower address-similarity score than a number-less one
# (named houses / flats by building name), which must match almost exactly to
# be trusted. Mirrors merge.py's listings convention.
MIN_FUZZY_SCORE = 82
MIN_FUZZY_SCORE_WITHOUT_NUMBERS = 90
def normalize_address_key(s: pl.Expr) -> pl.Expr:
normalized = (
s.cast(pl.String)
.str.to_uppercase()
.str.replace_all(r"[^0-9A-Z]+", " ")
.str.replace_all(r"\s+", " ")
.str.strip_chars()
)
return pl.when(normalized.str.contains(r"[A-Z]")).then(normalized).otherwise(None)
def normalize_postcode_key(s: pl.Expr) -> pl.Expr:
normalized = (
s.cast(pl.String)
.str.to_uppercase()
.str.replace_all(r"[^A-Z0-9]+", "")
.str.strip_chars()
)
return (
pl.when(normalized.str.contains(_POSTCODE_RE)).then(normalized).otherwise(None)
)
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,
min_score: int = MIN_FUZZY_SCORE,
min_score_without_numbers: int = MIN_FUZZY_SCORE_WITHOUT_NUMBERS,
) -> 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_", dir=local_tmp_dir())
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_address_key(pl.col(left_address_col)).alias("_left_address"),
normalize_postcode_key(pl.col(left_postcode_col)).alias(
"_left_postcode"
),
)
.collect(engine="streaming")
)
right_match = (
pl.scan_parquet(right_path)
.select(
"_right_idx",
normalize_address_key(pl.col(right_address_col)).alias(
"_right_address"
),
normalize_postcode_key(pl.col(right_postcode_col)).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],
min_score,
min_score_without_numbers,
)
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]], int, int],
) -> list[tuple[int, int, int]]:
"""Score all address pairs within a single postcode bucket."""
left_entries, right_entries, min_score, min_score_without_numbers = 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)
# Number-less pairs (named houses, building-name flats) lack the
# house-number disambiguator, so require a near-exact match.
threshold = (
min_score
if _NUMBER_RE.search(left_address) or _NUMBER_RE.search(right_address)
else min_score_without_numbers
)
if score >= threshold:
pairs.append((score, left_row, right_row))
return pairs