From 5fb027039ab137160da8a865b69bff3a437064e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: theOehrly <23384863+theOehrly@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 23:57:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] remove forgotten old fuzzy matcher

---
 fastf1/plotting/_base.py | 32 +-------------------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fastf1/plotting/_base.py b/fastf1/plotting/_base.py
index c980092ed..e1a4cdfc2 100644
--- a/fastf1/plotting/_base.py
+++ b/fastf1/plotting/_base.py
@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
 import unicodedata
 from typing import (
     Dict,
-    List,
-    Sequence,
-    TypeVar
+    List
 )
 
-from rapidfuzz import fuzz
-
 from fastf1.logger import get_logger
 from fastf1.plotting._constants.base import TeamConst
 
@@ -52,32 +48,6 @@ def __init__(
             self.teams_by_normalized[team.normalized_value] = team
 
 
-S = TypeVar('S', bound=str)
-
-
-def _fuzzy_matcher(identifier: str, reference: Sequence[S]) -> S:
-    # do fuzzy string matching
-    key_ratios = list()
-    for existing_key in reference:
-        ratio = fuzz.ratio(identifier, existing_key)
-        key_ratios.append((ratio, existing_key))
-    key_ratios.sort(reverse=True)
-    if ((key_ratios[0][0] < 35)
-            or (key_ratios[0][0] / key_ratios[1][0] < 1.2)):
-        # ensure that the best match has a minimum accuracy (35 out of
-        # 100) and that it has a minimum confidence (at least 20%
-        # better than second best)
-        raise KeyError
-    if key_ratios[0][0] != 100:
-        _logger.warning(
-            ("Correcting invalid user input "
-             f"'{identifier}' to '{key_ratios[0][1]}'."
-             )
-        )
-    best_matched_key = key_ratios[0][1]
-    return best_matched_key
-
-
 def _normalize_string(name: str) -> str:
     # removes accents from a string and returns the closest possible
     # ascii representation (https://stackoverflow.com/a/518232)