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Re: Extracting and summing student scores from a JSON file using Python 2.7.10

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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, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

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Extracting and summing student scores from a JSON file using Python 2.7.10 Bernie Lazlo <bjlazlo@gmail.com> - 2015-11-09 15:52 -0800
  Re: Extracting and summing student scores from a JSON file using Python 2.7.10 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-11-10 00:29 +0000
    Re: Extracting and summing student scores from a JSON file using Python 2.7.10 Bernie Lazlo <bjlazlo@gmail.com> - 2015-11-09 17:12 -0800
      Re: Extracting and summing student scores from a JSON file using Python 2.7.10 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-11-10 01:31 +0000
        Re: Extracting and summing student scores from a JSON file using Python 2.7.10 Bernie Lazlo <bjlazlo@gmail.com> - 2015-11-09 17:53 -0800
          Re: Extracting and summing student scores from a JSON file using Python 2.7.10 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-11-10 02:13 +0000
      Re: Extracting and summing student scores from a JSON file using Python 2.7.10 Pete Dowdell <contact@stridebird.com> - 2015-11-10 09:38 +0700
  Re: Extracting and summing student scores from a JSON file using Python 2.7.10 Bernie Lazlo <bjlazlo@gmail.com> - 2015-11-09 19:21 -0800
  Re: Extracting and summing student scores from a JSON file using Python 2.7.10 Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 03:25 +0000
    Re: Extracting and summing student scores from a JSON file using Python 2.7.10 wayne.wickson@gmail.com - 2015-11-09 19:53 -0800
      Re: Extracting and summing student scores from a JSON file using Python 2.7.10 Bernie Lazlo <bjlazlo@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 04:14 -0800
  Re: Extracting and summing student scores from a JSON file using Python 2.7.10 Bernie Lazlo <bjlazlo@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 04:16 -0800

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