alexc_data.py

import requests
import json

# limit = 379 for now. Alex must change

r = requests.get('https://api.clever.com/v1.1/sections?limit=379&where=%7B%22district%22%3A%224fd43cc56d11340000000005%22%7D&distinct=district%2Cstudents%2Ccourse_name%2Csis_id', headers={'Authorization':'Bearer DEMO_TOKEN'})

# putting r.text (string) into as json object (json_obj)
json_obj = json.loads(r.text)

# initialize total_students to 0.
#  keep adding to this
total_students = 0

total_num_sections = len(json_obj['data'])

for section in json_obj['data']:
	num_students = len(section['students'])
	# total_students = total_students + num_students
	total_students += num_students

avg_num_students = total_students / total_num_sections
print "average number of students per section is : %i" % avg_num_students