Average number of students per section (Clever API sandbox)

clever_students.py

from __future__ import division
import requests
import json
 
def get_average_students_per_section():
    ''' 
    Computes average number of students per section across all disctricts
    '''
    total_students = 0
    num_sections = 0
    auth = {'Authorization':'Bearer DEMO_TOKEN'}

    districts_r = requests.get('https://api.clever.com/v1.1/districts', headers=auth)
    districts_r.raise_for_status() # raises error if failed
    district_uris = district_uris = [district['uri'] for district in json.loads(districts_r.text)['data']]

    for uri in district_uris:
        sections_r = requests.get('https://api.clever.com/{0}/sections'.format(uri), headers=auth)
        sections_r.raise_for_status() # raises error if failed
        section_list = json.loads(sections_r.text)['data']
    
        students = sum([len(section['data']['students']) for section in section_list])
        total_students = total_students + students
        num_sections = num_sections + len(section_list)

    return total_students/num_sections #21.78 as of 09/11/2014

FYI: to run this code, the requests module is required, which is not part of the standard libary. Just a pip install away, though.