On Monday, 9 November 2015 20:31:52 UTC-5, MRAB wrote: > On 2015-11-10 01:12, Bernie Lazlo wrote: > > 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. > > > Right, so lst1[1] gets you closer to what you want. > > Further indexing will get you even closer. =========== lst2 = lst1[1] removes first line of instructions
printing lst2[1:2] produces essentially the list of students and scores ?? ([{u'student ': u'Hannah', u'score': 77}, {u'student ': u'Emily', u'score': 57}, {u'student ': u'Olivia', u'score': 80}, {u'student ': u'Nora', u'score': 70}, -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list