[Python] When veryfiying if an element is inside a dict in python it doesn't work as expected

I am writing a program in python which verifies if my clipboard starts with a specific thing, then it transforms the clipboard into something else, and it verifies if the clipboard now is inside a dictionary. Which, in some cases it is, (the key of an element in the dict) but it doesn't recognises it as so. Here is the code:

def watcher() -> None:
generators = {"first_name": faker.first_name()}
while True:
try:
clipboard_input = pyperclip.paste()
if clipboard_input.startswith("__gen__"):
clipboard_output = str(clipboard_input.replace("__gen__", ""))
print("clipboard_output:", clipboard_output)
print("generators:", generators)
print(clipboard_output in generators)
if clipboard_output in generators:
clipboard_output = generators[clipboard_output]
typer.echo(
f"Replace {clipboard_input} with {clipboard_output}",
)
pyperclip.copy(clipboard_output)
sleep(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
break
return None


And here is the output. the command before is to show you my clipboard, then you have the output of this function:


^C(env) [nathanv@bongstong bonus_project0]$ echo __gen__first_name | xclip -selection clipboard
(env) [nathanv@bongstong bonus_project0]$ python main.py gen watcher
clipboard_output: first_name

generators: {'first_name': 'Jacob'}
False
Replace __gen__first_name
with first_name


You can also see some debugging print statements. Any help will be much appreciated.

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