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

Were d is your dictionary and n is the printing number:

for idx, (k, v) in enumerate(d):
  if idx == n: break
  print((k, v))

Casting your dictionary to list can be slow. Your dictionary may be too large and you don't need to cast all of it just for printing a few of the first.