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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def simplify_text(text):
 """ Simplify text to allow comparison. 'awesome coder wanted at awesome company' 'awesome coder wanted at awesome company' True """

    if isinstance(text, six.text_type):
        if six.PY3:  # pragma: no cover
            text = text.translate(text.maketrans("", "", string.punctuation)).lower()
        else:  # pragma: no cover
            text = six.text_type(text.encode('utf-8').translate(string.maketrans("", ""), string.punctuation).lower(), 'utf-8')
    else:
        text = text.translate(string.maketrans("", ""), string.punctuation).lower()
    return " ".join(text.split())