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Anagram checker in Python

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  1. one =  raw_input('Enter first word/phrase: ')
  2. two = raw_input('Enter second word/phrase: ')
  3.  
  4. # Check if one phrase has exactly the same letter set as the other.
  5. def isAnagram(one, two):
  6.   # First divide each phrase into a list of words, then join the words into
  7.   # a string.  Then compare the alphabetically-sorted strings for equality.
  8.   # Apostrophes are stripped from the words.
  9.   list1 = one.split()
  10.   list2 = two.split()
  11.   word1 = ""; word2 = ""
  12.   sorted_joined_str1 = ""; sorted_joined_str2 = ""
  13.   for word in list1:
  14.       word1 += word
  15.   sorted_joined_str1 += ''.join(sorted(word1, key=str.lower)).lower().replace("'","")
  16.  
  17.   for word in list2:
  18.       word2 += word
  19.   sorted_joined_str2 += ''.join(sorted(word2, key=str.lower)).lower().replace("'","")
  20.  
  21.   if sorted_joined_str1 == sorted_joined_str2: return True
  22.   else: return False
  23.  
  24.  
  25. if isAnagram(one, two):
  26.         print one + " and " + two + " are anagrams of each other"
  27. else: print one + " and " + two + " are NOT anagrams of each other"

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