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

[Bernie Lazlo]

On Monday, 9 November 2015 18:53:06 UTC-5, 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.]
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> The student scores need to be summed.
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> 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
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Many thanks, MRAB!  :-)