On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:57 PM, dmitrey <dmitrey15 at gmail.com> wrote: > Unfortunately, it doesn't work, it turn out to be dict_items: >>>> next({1:2}.items()) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: dict_items object is not an iterator So call iter() on it first: next(iter(myDict.items()))