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, denismfmcma...@gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list