The other answer is wrong in a key respect - the inference that the result of process.extract was the same as fuzz.partial_ratio in one case, therefore they are doing the same thing by default.

process.extract actually uses WRatio() by default, which is a weighted combination of the four fuzz ratios. This is actually a cool functionality that empirically works pretty well across fuzzy matching scenarios.

Still, you can manually specify the string comparison function via the scorer argument to extract

Source for process.extract:https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy/blob/master/fuzzywuzzy/process.py

fuzzywuzzy's process.extract() returns the list in reverse sorted order , with the best match coming first.

so to find just the best match, you can set the limit argument as 1 , so that it only returns the best match, and if that is greater than 60 , you can write it to the csv, like you are doing now.

Example -

from fuzzywuzzy import process
## For each row in the lookup compute the partial ratio
for row in parse_csv("names_2.csv"):

    for found, score, matchrow in process.extract(row, data, limit=1):
        if score >= 60:
            print('%d%% partial match: "%s" with "%s" ' % (score, row, found))
            Digi_Results = [row, score, found]
            writer.writerow(Digi_Results)

process.extractOne will return None, when the best score is below score_cutoff. So you either have to check for None, or catch the exception:

best_match = process.extractOne(text, choices_dict, score_cutoff=80)
if best_match:
    value, score, key = best_match
    print(f"best match is {key}:{value} with the similarity {score}")
else:
    print("no match found")

or

try:
    value, score, key = process.extractOne(text, choices_dict, score_cutoff=80)
    print(f"best match is {key}:{value} with the similarity {score}")
except TypeError:
    print("no match found")

Both process.extract and process.extractOne will use fuzz.WRatio as scorer by default. fuzz.WRatio calculates the result using multiple scorers, that are weighted. In your example the result is from fuzz.partial_ratio weighted with the factor 0.9. Since x is a substring of minimax it returns 100 * 0.9 = 90.

You can specify a different scorer in the following way:

> process.extractOne('minimax', ['x'], scorer=fuzz.ratio)
('x', 25)