''' Purpose: practice getting data from a useful dataset
'''

# define the base folder for course csv datasets
CSV_WEB_FOLDER = "http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs1112/datasets/csv/"

###############  BOILER PLATE TO GET CONTENTS OF WEB FILE ###############

# need help to get web data - so import the capability
from urllib.request import urlopen

# get name of the dataset
reply = input( "Enter name of dataset: " )

print()

# clean up the reply to get file name
file_name = reply.strip()

# get url link for dataset
link = CSV_WEB_FOLDER + file_name

# get a connection to stream the web resource of interest
stream = urlopen( link )

# read stream to gets its encoded contents
encoding = stream.read()

# decode contents into plain text form
text = encoding.decode( 'UTF-8' )

# clean-up the text
text = text.strip()

print( text )

###############  TURN CONTENTS INTO A LIST OF LINES  ###############

# turn the text into data; i.e., a list of lines
lines = text.split( "\n" )

###############  TURN LINES INTO A DATASET -- LIST OF LISTS  ###############

# get csv rows into dataset from
dataset = []

for line in lines :
    # clean up the line
    line = ...

    # split the line to cells
    cells = ...

    row = []
    for cell in cells :
        # clean up the cell
        ...

        # add the cell to the row
        ...

    # add the row of data to our dataset
    ...

# print the dataset 

for row in dataset :
    print( row )