How do you find the first key in a dictionary?

Question

I am trying to get my program to print out \"banana\" from the dictionary. What would be the simplest way to do this?

This is my dictionary:

Answer 1

On a Python version where dicts actually are ordered, you can do

my_dict = {'foo': 'bar', 'spam': 'eggs'}
next(iter(my_dict)) # outputs 'foo'

For dicts to be ordered, you need Python 3.7+, or 3.6+ if you're okay with relying on the technically-an-implementation-detail ordered nature of dicts on Python 3.6.

For earlier Python versions, there is no "first key".