Method first

Lib/shelve.py:207–210

(self)

        return (key.decode(self.keyencoding), Unpickler(f).load())

    def first(self):
        (key, value) = self.dict.first()
        f = BytesIO(value)
        return (key.decode(self.keyencoding), Unpickler(f).load())

    def last(self):
        (key, value) = self.dict.last()