my file saved as json , it doesn't read it in . I don't mind if you want to convert it to text
{
  "startAt": 0,
  "maxResults": 0,
  "total": 505,
  "issues": [
    
  ]
}
All I want to do is extract number 505, its always after total :
import pandas as pd 
import json 
l=pd.read_json(r'C:\Users\ab006qj.D_ABSA\Desktop\JIRA\Number of Fields.json')
print(l['total'])
its returns 
Series([], Name: total, dtype: int64)
 
     
    