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. :-)
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