how to loop through a dictionary and access the first value?

How can I loop through the dictionary and access the first value in the dictionary? Note, I know this can be done without looping but in this case, I require looping so that is why I'm a little stuck.

For example: Suppose you have a dictionary d = {1: "Hello", 2: "Bye"}. I want to loop through this dictionary and return "Hello". How can I do so?

I could do:

for first_value in d.values():
     ... # what do I do here?

CodePudding user response：

Break out of the loop after the first iteration:

for first_value in d.values():
    break
print(first_value)

CodePudding user response：

I'm not entirely sure if I follow, but if you want to separate the first value from the rest, you can use the unpacking operator:

data = {1: "Hello", 2: "Bye"}
fst, *rest = data.values()
print(fst)
print(rest)

This outputs:

Hello
['Bye']