Extracting and summing student scores from a JSON file using Python 2.7.10

[Bernie Lazlo]

On Monday, 9 November 2015 19:30:23 UTC-5, MRAB  wrote:
> On 2015-11-09 23:52, Bernie Lazlo wrote:
> > This should be a simple problem but I have wasted hours on it. Any help would be appreciated. [I have taken my code back to almost the very beginning.]
> > ========================
> > The student scores need to be summed.
> > ========================
> > import json
> > import urllib
> > url = "http://www.wickson.net/geography_assignment.json"
> > response = urllib.urlopen(url)
> > data = json.loads(response.read())
> > lst1 = list(data.items())
> > print lst1
> >
> Do it a step at a time.
> 
> It's a list, so start with indexing.

MRAB:

I think of the file as two lists. The second list appears to be a list of tuples containing "names" and "scores". How would you index or extract those.