5 maximum values in a python dictionary

Question

I have a dictionary like this:

A = {\'a\':10, \'b\':843, \'c\': 39,.....}

I want to get the 5 maximum values of this dict and store a new d

Answer 1

For Python 3

import operator
dict(sorted(A.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)[:5])