use python to loop through values in dictionary to change value based on key

Question

I have a dictionary with 100 entries like this..

d = {
    'entrenched': ['the Internet is firmly entrenched in our lives.'], 
    'profoundly': ['racism is profoundly entrenched within different social spheres.']
}

I want to loop through the dictionary and replace one of the words in the value based on the key.

The output should look like this:

d = {
    'entrenched': ['the Internet is firmly en...   in our lives.'], 
    'profoundly': ['racism is pr...   entrenched within different social spheres.']
}

I tried this code

for k,v in d.items():    
    for word in v:
        if word == k:
            gapped_word = word[1:]+ '...'
            final_sentence = v.replace(word,gapped_word )
            print(final_sentence)

but got no output. I'm also not sure what the final line should be if instead of printing I am replacing the original value with the adjusted one

Answer 1

As each dictionary item maps from a string to a list you should iterate the items in that list. Then, for each of those items, perform the replacing. In addition, notice that you do not have to split the sentence into words, but simply perform the operation over the entire sentence.

final_d = { k: [item.replace(k, k[:2]+"...") for item in v] for k, v in d.items()}

Where the value of final_d is are desired:

{'entrenched': ['the Internet is firmly en... in our lives.'],
 'profoundly': ['racism is pr... entrenched within different social spheres.']}