''' Purpose: for user-specified CS 1112 CSV dataset, reports the number of entries in
             the dataset
'''

# get ahold of helpful web functions
import url

# specify base web folder for datasets
CSV_REPOSITORY = 'http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs1112/datasets/csv/'

# get dataset of interest
reply = input( 'Enter the name of a data set: ' )

name = reply.strip()

link = CSV_REPOSITORY + name

dataset = url.get_dataset( link )

### determine the number of entries

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