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Less complicated version of what you wrote would be: <pre> <code> states = ["alabama","alaska", ... ,"wyoming",] sset = set() for s1 in xrange(len(states)): for s2 in xrange(s1+1, len(states)): ss = ''.join(sorted(states[s1] + states[s2])) if ss in sset: print states[s1], states[s2] exit(0) else: sset.add(ss) </code> </pre>

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