Json – How do I add a space between the Double Quotes and Colon in the key values of the dictionary?

The following is my code:

import json


def value_list(sentence):

    word_list = sentence.split(" ")





    total_number_of_words_in_the_sentence = len(word_list)

    value_list = []

    for i in range(0, total_number_of_words_in_the_sentence):


        count1 = word_list.count(word_list[i])


        value_list.append(count1)








    return value_list


def wordlist1(sentence):
    import json

    word_list = sentence.split()







    total_number_of_words_in_the_sentence = len(word_list)

    for i in range(0,total_number_of_words_in_the_sentence):

        word_list[i] = word_list[i]


    return word_list

def word_frequency1(sentence):
    dict1 = dict(zip(wordlist1(sentence), value_list(sentence)))

    dict2 = json.dumps(dict1)

##    from collections import OrderedDict
##    my_dic = OrderedDict(dict1)
##  formatted_dict = {f'{key} : {value}' for key, value in my_dic.items()}

 ##   from collections import OrderedDict

 ##   ordered_dict = OrderedDict(formatted_dict)

##    my_list = list(my_dic)

##    json.dumps(formatted_dict)




    return dict2




print(word_frequency1("John is a businessman and John is a programmer."))

The output is:

{"John": 2, "is": 2, "a": 2, "businessman": 1, "and": 1, "programmer.": 1}

The output that I want is

{"John" : 2, "is" : 2, "a" : 2, "businessman" : 1, "and" : 1, "programmer." : 1}

How do I get this output?

I have tried a lot but not being able to get the output in this format.

Any solution guys?

i tried replace function , formatting as well as looked up some solutions online but nothing is working.