Return first N key:value pairs from dict

Question

Consider the following dictionary, d:

d = {\'a\': 3, \'b\': 2, \'c\': 3, \'d\': 4, \'e\': 5}

I want to return the first N key:value pairs f

Answer 1

This might not be very elegant, but works for me:

d = {'a': 3, 'b': 2, 'c': 3, 'd': 4, 'e': 5}

x= 0
for key, val in d.items():
    if x == 2:
        break
    else:
        x += 1
        # Do something with the first two key-value pairs