How to select keys from a dictionary by their order?

Sorry this is probably very simple, but I suspect I’m wording the question wrong from inexperience so I haven’t been able to find the answer anywhere.

I have a dictionary, e.g.:

dict = {1: 'a', 2: 'b'}

I want to select specific values within the dictionary from knowing only their position in the dictionary.

For example I want to print the first key, and all I know about the key is that it’s the first key in the dictionary, not its actual name to call on.

I am trying:

dict[0][0]

And I’m expecting this to output 1, the first key in the dictionary – but I’m not experienced in python so I’m not sure how to get this working?

Answer

This is probably what you were looking for.

Note this is for Python 3.7 and forward.

d = {1: 'a', 2: 'b'} # dict is a bad variable name! don't do it! it overrides a built-in!
d_keys = list(d.keys())
first_value = d[d_keys[0]]