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

For Python 3.8 the correct answer should be:

import more_itertools

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

first_n = more_itertools.take(3, d.items())
print(len(first_n))
print(first_n)

Whose output is:

3
[('a', 3), ('b', 2), ('c', 3)]

After pip install more-itertools of course.