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Jam - 2008-10-27 19:08:54.705851

Less complicated version of what you wrote would be:

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)