''' 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/' import url # 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 the contents of the web file dataset = url.get_contents( link ) print( 'dataset' ) print( dataset ) print() reply = input( 'Enter when ready: ' ) # get dataset from the web dataset = url.get_dataset( link ) # divide dataset into header and data header = dataset[ 0 ] data = dataset[ 1 : ] # print the header print( 'header:' ) print( header ) print() # print the dataset data print( 'data:' ) for row in data : print( row ) print()