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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.