''' 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'

# get contents of babel fish url
dataset = url.get_dataset( BABEL_FISH_URL ) # returns a list of lists/ table of rows

# convert csv-based word mappings into dictionary format
word_mappings = {} # declares an empty dict\
# we need a way to make A LOT of mappings...how do?
# repeated actions... think for loop.

for row in dataset:
    word, translation = row
    word_mappings[ word ] = translation
#print( word_mappings )

# get the user text to be translated
reply = input( 'Enter phrase to be translated: ' )

# convert reply into a list of words
to_be_translated = reply.split()

# process the list word by word -- that is, build up the output phrase
#     word by word

# WE NEED A LOOP for an unknown number of words

output_phrase = ''

for w in to_be_translated:
    # how would we find the meaning of w?..we must access the value of a key

    #print( w, "=", t )
    # How would we test whether or not the word is in our dictionary
    if ( w in word_mappings ):
        t = word_mappings.get(w)
        output_phrase = output_phrase + t + " "
    else:
        output_phrase = output_phrase + "*" + w + "*" + " "

# print translation
print( output_phrase )