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

[Bernie Lazlo]

On Monday, 9 November 2015 22:54:05 UTC-5, wayne.... at gmail.com  wrote:
> On Monday, 9 November 2015 22:27:40 UTC-5, Denis McMahon  wrote:
> > On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:52:45 -0800, 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
> > 
> > I find that pprint.pprint is useful for looking at data structures.
> > 
> > Having looked at the data, and then using appropriate substitutions for 
> > <something> and <keyval> in the following:
> > 
> > sumscore = 0
> > students = 0
> > 
> > for dic in <something>:
> >     sumscore = sumscore + dic[<keyval>]
> >     students += 1
> > 
> > print 'Sum of', students, 'scores is', sumscore
> > print 'Average of', students, 'scores is', sumscore / students
> > 
> > It was trivial to generate:
> > 
> > Sum of 50 scores is 3028
> > Average of 50 scores is 60
> > 
> > -- 
> > Denis McMahon
> =========================================
Thanks for the reply, Denis. I hope this comes as easily to me some day. :-)