words combined at best spot

baseWord = input("Enter a word: ")


while len(baseWord)!=1:
    word2 = input("Enter another word to add to the end of that word: ")

    # First of all, find the best match
    bestCandidate = baseWord
    bestSum = 999 # the smallest sum of the two indexes

    word2Index = 0
    while word2Index<len(word2): # while loop that runs through word2 left to right
        baseWordIndex = len(baseWord)-1
        while baseWordIndex>=0: # while loop that runs through baseWord right to left

            if (baseWord[baseWordIndex]==word2[word2Index] and # if characters match, and
            (len(baseWord)-baseWordIndex)+word2Index<bestSum): # if this is a better mix than the current best
                # update the best candidate to be this mix
                bestCandidate = baseWord[0:baseWordIndex] + word2[word2Index:]
                bestSum = (len(baseWord)-baseWordIndex)+word2Index

            baseWordIndex -= 1
        word2Index += 1

    print("The result: "+bestCandidate)
    baseWord = bestCandidate