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Get first N key pairs from an Ordered Dictionary to another one in python

I have a large dictionary. How do I sort those entries in decreasing order and then print the first n items? To print the sorted items in dictionary, I am using this code:

print sorted(mydictionary.iteritems(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)  

Answer 1

You can print a slice then:

print sorted(mydictionary.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)[:10]