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python - Get a random sample of a dict

I'm working with a big dictionary and for some reason I also need to work on small random samples from that dictionary. How can I get this small sample (for example of length 2)?

Here is a toy-model:

dy={'a':1, 'b':2, 'c':3, 'd':4, 'e':5}

I need to perform some task on dy which involves all the entries. Let us say, to simplify, I need to sum together all the values:

s=0
for key in dy.key:
    s=s+dy[key]

Now, I also need to perform the same task on a random sample of dy; for that I need a random sample of the keys of dy. The simple solution I can imagine is

sam=list(dy.keys())[:1]

In that way I have a list of two keys of the dictionary which are somehow random. So, going back to may task, the only change I need in the code is:

s=0
for key in sam:
    s=s+dy[key]

The point is I do not fully understand how dy.keys is constructed and then I can't foresee any future issue

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def sample_from_dict(d, sample=10):
    keys = random.sample(list(d), sample)
    values = [d[k] for k in keys]
    return dict(zip(keys, values))

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