''' Purpose: translate user text to English
'''

# get access to url support
import url

# CS 1112 translation dictionary -- entries are of form: word,translation
BABEL_FISH_URL = "http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs1112/words/babelfish"

# delimiters for unknown words
UNKNOWN_WORD_DELIMITER = "?"

# get contents of babel fish url as a dictionary
babelfish_dictionary = url.get_dictionary( BABEL_FISH_URL ) # Now we will get a dictionary from the contents of the webpage
print( babelfish_dictionary ) # Dictionary of key value pairs where each row of k, v on the webpage is a k:v pair

# get the user text to be translated
reply = input( "Enter phrase to be translated: " ) # User-entered string of words to translate

# convert reply into a list of words
words_to_be_translated = reply.split() # We want to translate each of these words using our dictionary one by one below

# initialize translation accumulator
translation = '' # We are going to build up this string using word translations of each word in words_to_be_translated

# process the words for translation one by one. each word contributes to the translation

for current_word in words_to_be_translated: # Loop through each word in the list of words we want to translate
    # whether current word is in the dictionary, determines our translation action
    if ( current_word in babelfish_dictionary ): # if the current_word is a key in our dictionary
        meaning = babelfish_dictionary.get( current_word ) # Get the value (the meaning) of that word from the dictionary!
    else: # the current_word is not in our dictionary (not able to be translated)
        meaning = UNKNOWN_WORD_DELIMITER + current_word + UNKNOWN_WORD_DELIMITER # ?word?
    translation = translation + meaning + ' ' # Add each translated meaning of each word to our string translation

    # print( current_word )
    # meaning = babelfish_dictionary.get( current_word ) # Gets value for the key where the key is the current_word
   #  print( 'Current word: ', current_word, 'Meaning: ', meaning )
   #  translation = translation + meaning + ' '
   #  print( translation )
# print translation
print( translation )