Clever data munging with hashes

Hashmania.py

abbrevs = [
            'STP',
            'TCP',
            'TI',
            'USB',
            'UTP',
            'VLAN',
            'VLANs',
            'VM',
            'VMs',
            'VPN',
            ]

defns = """
ACL|Access Control List
BIA|Business Impact Assessment
BoD|Basis of Design
""".splitlines()
defns = {x:y for x, y in [r.split('|') for r in defns if len(r) > 0]}

y = {x: defns.get(x, '') for x in abbrevs}

for k, v in y.items():
    print(k, v, sep="|")