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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list